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Re: flashplugin-nonfree and latest Flash security updates

From Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.security
Subject Re: flashplugin-nonfree and latest Flash security updates
Date 2016-08-04 08:20 +0200
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On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 02:14:55AM +0000, Nick Boyce wrote:
> > Just don't use that crap. With the amount of zero days in Flash
> > you're subject to serious vulnerabilities even with an up-to-date
> > plugin.
> [...]  Also I
> believe there are quite a few corporate intranet use-cases that *depend*
> on Flash for corporate web-apps (at least according to traffic on the
> Enterprise Firefox list).

plus there are a lot of school + education related websites & other
material, including exams, which need flash… I estimate it will take
some years to weed those out.


-- 
cheers,
	Holger

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flashplugin-nonfree and latest Flash security updates "Darren S." <phatbuckett@gmail.com> - 2016-08-01 17:30 +0200
  Re: flashplugin-nonfree and latest Flash security updates Francesco Negri <francesconegri@gmail.com> - 2016-08-01 18:30 +0200
  RE: flashplugin-nonfree and latest Flash security updates Nick Boyce <nick@glimmer.demon.co.uk> - 2016-08-03 02:50 +0200
    Re: flashplugin-nonfree and latest Flash security updates Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2016-08-03 12:00 +0200
      Re: flashplugin-nonfree and latest Flash security updates Rob van der Putten <rob@sput.nl> - 2016-08-03 21:00 +0200
        flash plugin from ubuntu (was: flashplugin-nonfree and latest Flash security updates) Stefan Fritsch <sf@sfritsch.de> - 2016-08-03 23:20 +0200
          Re: flash plugin from ubuntu (was: flashplugin-nonfree and latest  Flash security updates) Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> - 2016-08-04 00:10 +0200
            Re: flash plugin from ubuntu (was: flashplugin-nonfree and latest  Flash security updates) "Luedtke, Nicholas (HPE Linux Security)" <nicholas.luedtke@hpe.com> - 2016-08-04 04:40 +0200
              Re: flash plugin from ubuntu (was: flashplugin-nonfree and latest Flash security updates) Stefan Fritsch <sf@sfritsch.de> - 2016-08-04 22:20 +0200
        Re: flashplugin-nonfree and latest Flash security updates Jason Fergus <leech@thefnords.org> - 2016-08-05 17:00 +0200
      RE: flashplugin-nonfree and latest Flash security updates Nick Boyce <nick@glimmer.demon.co.uk> - 2016-08-04 04:20 +0200
    Re: flashplugin-nonfree and latest Flash security updates Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org> - 2016-08-03 21:10 +0200
      RE: flashplugin-nonfree and latest Flash security updates Nick Boyce <nick@glimmer.demon.co.uk> - 2016-08-04 04:30 +0200
        Re: flashplugin-nonfree and latest Flash security updates Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> - 2016-08-04 08:20 +0200
  Re: flashplugin-nonfree and latest Flash security updates Bart Martens <bartm@debian.org> - 2016-08-04 01:00 +0200
    RE: flashplugin-nonfree and latest Flash security updates Nick Boyce <nick@glimmer.demon.co.uk> - 2016-08-04 04:50 +0200

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