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This is timely considering google's announcement to dump indexing of flash (swf) assets. I get it, the format is unused, buggy, and possibly insecure. That said, much of the nascent internet was built on that. Even "All Your Base" was originally in flash.
I'm hoping that the AGPL has or will curb some of this lock in, though I suspect that the people with the funding to run SaaS at scale will route around AGPL.
Genuinely curious. Do they keep having security issues like this because they've got a huge target drawn on them, or are they just genuinely bad at security?
I have not been able to trust them since I had to install security updates for PDF or Shockwave nearly weekly.