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Apparently, though unproven, at 02:07 on Friday 03 June 2011, walt did opine |
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> On 06/02/2011 02:21 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > Flash is a piece of shit that has never worked right and Adobe are a |
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> > bunch of fools that cannot code properly or securely. |
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> I agree 100%. My question is why they continue to be so successful in |
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> spite of such a history. |
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That's easy to answer, but it has nothing to do with code and everything to do |
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with human nature. |
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Flash is New!Improved!Shiny! shit full of bling and looks cool to the |
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consumer. Web devs develop flashy shiny sites and users think it's awesome. We |
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look at flash and think "OMFG, how can anyone release crap code like that?" |
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Well, the web dev is hooked into the user's mindset, providing something the |
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user likes and that is real to him. So the user will use it regardless of any |
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issues it may have. The user does not understand our mindset (coders and code |
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quality) so we get no traction with users, we might as well speak Martian |
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> And they don't seem to be improving -- Flash |
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> shows up regularly on the monthly security bulletin from sans.org with yet |
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> another buffer overflow exploit. It never gets better :( |
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> OTOH, chromium gets security fixes from google every *week*, so they don't |
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> inspire much confidence either. |
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> Which is safer: an insecure program that gets fixed every month, or one |
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> that gets fixed every week? The answer is not obvious to me... |
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Compare how Google goes about doing things with how Adobe does it. |
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The Google Chromium team appears to take security seriously and are open and |
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up-front about what they do. |
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Adobe likes to stonewall on issues and create an aura of how sekrit stuff is. |
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Which one inspires confidence in fellow geeks? |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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