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0 sats \ 6 replies \ @Malachi17 14 Feb \ on: Patch Tuesday: Adobe Warns of Critical Flaws in Widely Deployed Software security
This almost made me forget what year it was. I haven't seen anything like this since probably '05.
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0 sats \ 5 replies \ @ch0k1 OP 14 Feb
What do you mean?
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0 sats \ 4 replies \ @Malachi17 14 Feb
Adobe and flash and its like were constantly being patched back in the day.
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100 sats \ 3 replies \ @ch0k1 OP 14 Feb
Yeah, those are so archaic and dead technologies which weren't working well even when they were introduced back then
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Malachi17 14 Feb
Flash worked reasonably well. It just wasn't secure. For a long time, nobody really knew that, then it seemed to explode.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @ch0k1 OP 14 Feb
Lol, security was only one side of the coin - it was so hard and hostile to use lacking both good documentation and standardization compared to its main competitors like MS Silver light for example.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Malachi17 15 Feb
Silver light was on down the road a bit in 05.
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