[Fixed] Flash (Zero-Day Exploit)

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[Fixed] Flash (Zero-Day Exploit)

Unread post by ivanovnegro » Wed Feb 04, 2015 11:19 pm

Ok, Flash again. Recent news (Bones told us already somewhere) are really bad and the whole internet is speaking about it, even Steve Jobs in his grave.

Remove the Flash plugin from your machine, if not yet happened, now is the the time to bury it forever! Listen to Pidsley!
And then we can stop to post about Flash issues on this board like it happens on a weekly basis at the one of our friends from Siduction.

On Chrome at least make it "click-to-play", maybe the sandboxing can still prevent shit or disable it, too. For Firefox/Iceturtle and all other browsers that use its Flash plugin, it is time to say good bye, also for Chromium.

Reference

As from now on, we do not support any Flash related support questions.

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Re: Flash (Zero-Day Exploit)

Unread post by bones » Wed Feb 04, 2015 11:41 pm

Yes, kill it and bury it. I have removed that plague from all my machines, and of course it wasn't necessary for OpenBSD, as they smartly don't have that shit to begin with!

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Re: Flash (Zero-Day Exploit)

Unread post by pidsley » Thu Feb 05, 2015 2:03 am

^ Yeah yeah yeah, BSD rules. We know. ;)

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Zeal_of_the_convert

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Re: Flash (Zero-Day Exploit)

Unread post by GekkoP » Thu Feb 05, 2015 8:26 am

Thank you, Ivan. Goodbye, Flash.

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Re: Flash (Zero-Day Exploit)

Unread post by dkeg » Thu Feb 05, 2015 12:26 pm

always click to activate/allow.

Work hard; Complain less

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Re: Flash (Zero-Day Exploit)

Unread post by bones » Thu Feb 05, 2015 1:59 pm

pidsley wrote:^ Yeah yeah yeah, BSD rules. We know. ;)
Hehehe...

No, pids, here's the honest truth!:

http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/opera ... ms/os-suck

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Re: Flash (Zero-Day Exploit)

Unread post by bones » Sat Feb 07, 2015 5:32 pm

So this is interesting regarding the whole Flash/YouTube/browser-players thing...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/01/n ... e-old-boss

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Re: Flash (Zero-Day Exploit)

Unread post by machinebacon » Tue Feb 10, 2015 10:49 am

apparently fixed yesterday, however, the bbq philosophy says: fuck flash :)
..gnutella..

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Re: Flash (Zero-Day Exploit)

Unread post by ivanovnegro » Tue Feb 10, 2015 3:50 pm

/Fixed but as said above, Flash is now against BBQ philosophy. :P

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