[Info-vax] OpenVMS Technical Journal v18 and Flash

[Forster, Michael]

Doesn't make it correct.

On May 13, 2012, at 7:55 PM, "Arne Vajhøj" <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:

> On 5/13/2012 4:19 PM, David Froble wrote:
>> Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> On 5/10/2012 12:20 PM, Michael Unger wrote:
>>>> On 2012-05-10 17:36, "Jan-Erik Soderholm" wrote:
>>>>> Not that this is either uncommon on todays internet, or that it
>>>>> is particular "crasy", but I agree that it isn't realy needed...
>>>> 
>>>> It is at least rather uncommon for PDF documents. Flash simply is a
>>>> rather high security risk due to lots of errors, it has to be updated
>>>> even more often than the Adobe Reader itself according to lots of CERT
>>>> advisories.
>>> 
>>> Updating stuff when you use the internet is a fact of life today.
>>> 
>>> OS, browser, Java, Flash, AcrobatReader etc.etc..
>> 
>> Forcing someone to be as careless as the sender is rather rude, sort of
>> like stepping out in front of a bus, and dragging those around you along
>> with you.
>> 
>> Perhaps I don't want to read something badly enough to step in front of
>> a bus.
> 
> About 95% of internet users have Flash installed.
> 
> Arne
> 
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