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On 06/02/2011 02:21 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> Flash is a piece of shit that has never worked right and Adobe are a bunch of 
> fools that cannot code properly or securely.

I agree 100%.  My question is why they continue to be so successful in spite
of such a history.  And they don't seem to be improving -- Flash shows up
regularly on the monthly security bulletin from sans.org with yet another
buffer overflow exploit.  It never gets better :(

OTOH, chromium gets security fixes from google every *week*, so they don't
inspire much confidence either.

Which is safer:  an insecure program that gets fixed every month, or one that
gets fixed every week?  The answer is not obvious to me...