{"id":441,"date":"2017-05-23T14:26:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T14:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mauromaggioni.duckdns.org\/?p=441"},"modified":"2023-10-29T14:49:05","modified_gmt":"2023-10-29T14:49:05","slug":"on-adobe-flash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mauromaggioni.duckdns.org\/?p=441","title":{"rendered":"On Adobe, Flash &#038; Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/02\/17\/critical-flash-player-update-mac\/\">critical vulnerability in Adobe Flash player<\/a>, required for example by JHU to take mandatory professional-learning materials. I use an isolated Windows virtual machine on OS X just for Adobe Flash player&#8230;and still I wish I did not have to use it, ever. See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/hotnews\/thoughts-on-flash\/\">Steve Jobs&#8217; thoughts on Flash.<\/a><br \/>\nUpdate: now it seems <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2020\/01\/23\/next-version-of-safari-drops-apple-support\/\">Flash won&#8217;t be compatible with Safari<\/a> anymore&#8230;anyone still using it? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alphr.com\/software\/1009184\/adobe-flash-dead-websites-ditch-software\">Some stats<\/a> here&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>You thought Adobe Reader was safe? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2020\/05\/14\/adobe-acrobat-security-vulnerabilities-mac\/\">Here are some news about vulnerabilities<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Update 1\/4\/2021: &#8230;and finally, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/flashplayer\/end-of-life.html\">Adobe recommends to all users to uninstall it<\/a>, &#8220;to help protect their system&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another critical vulnerability in Adobe Flash player, required for example by JHU to take mandatory professional-learning materials. I use an isolated Windows virtual machine on OS X just for Adobe Flash player&#8230;and still I wish I did not have to use it, ever. See Steve Jobs&#8217; thoughts on Flash. Update: now it seems Flash won&#8217;t&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mauromaggioni.duckdns.org\/?p=441\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On Adobe, Flash &#038; Reader<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","category-software","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauromaggioni.duckdns.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauromaggioni.duckdns.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauromaggioni.duckdns.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauromaggioni.duckdns.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauromaggioni.duckdns.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mauromaggioni.duckdns.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1072,"href":"https:\/\/mauromaggioni.duckdns.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions\/1072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauromaggioni.duckdns.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauromaggioni.duckdns.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauromaggioni.duckdns.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}