Adobe Flash Plug-in Update

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 14 July 2015 22:03:24 Chris wrote:
> As a lot of you have realized by now Firefox is blocking the
> activation to the Flash Plug-in due to a 0 day hack (from what I read
> anyway). The version that is being blocked on my Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS
> running Firefox 39.0 is
>
> Flash Player Plugin on Linux 11.2.202.481 (click-to-play) has been
> blocked for your protection.
>
> Now this evening I had an update to the flash plug-in however it makes
> no sense:
>
> Start-Date: 2015-07-14  19:39:19
> Commandline: aptdaemon role='role-commit-packages' sender=':1.148'
> Upgrade: flashplugin-installer:amd64 (11.2.202.481ubuntu0.14.04.1,
> 11.2.202.481ubuntu0.14.04.2)
>
> Why would Ubuntu upgrade the plug-in to the version that is being
> blocked by Firefox in the first place?
>
Because adobe has thrown the linux version of flash under the bus about 2 
years ago?

Their support costs, trying to stay ahead of the hackers made it a loss 
on the P&L sheet. Windows versions are likely in similar straights.

The last linux version of the player contains two huge security holes 
that are being actively exploited by the black hats.  When the sites 
that use flash see their numbers sinking like a rock, they will switch 
to html5, or go dark.  I don't care which, but the quicker it happens, 
the better off we all are. html5 seems to be well supported, and we 
should encourage its usage by ignoring flash content.

> Chris
>
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> Chris
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> 31 02:07:04 UTC 2015

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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