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Adobe Security Updates For Flash and Shockwave

Posted by timothy on from the if-you'd-rather-not-live-on-that-particular-edge dept.

nlewis writes "Adobe has finally released updates for their Flash and Shockwave Players. These updates should, in theory, address the security issues outlined in this security bulletin. This issue has been mentioned here previously. Don't expect an update to the equally flawed Acrobat Reader until sometime tomorrow, though."

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  1. Not to worry about Reader! by EkriirkE · · Score: 4, Informative

    While we may be stuck with adobe for flash & shockwave, users should not be using reader at all. It is complete and utter bloatware.

    FoxIt or Sumatra for Windows are the better, slimmer PDF reader alternatives. And Linux has its many other readers.

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  2. When will Adobe learn? by judolphin · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The incredibly slow, huge and intrusive Adobe Acrobat Reader updates are the main reason I (and I'm sure many others) switched to FoxIt.

    That aside, to this day, the innovations created by the Adobe of twenty years ago rivals that of any company of any time: TrueType, PostScript, the PDF standard, Photoshop (which is just as much a verb as "Google")... Adobe in the 1980s almost single-handedly created the desktop publishing industry. They made the software, technologies and tools achievable for individuals and small businesses.

    Adobe Updates are Exhibit A of how they've fallen from one of the great software companies ever, to the punchline of a joke.

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    1. Re:When will Adobe learn? by Burdell · · Score: 4, Informative

      The TrueType font spec was developed by Apple to compete with Adobe. PostScript uses a different font system (PostScript Type 1 being the most common). Adobe didn't want to license just license the Type 1 format (or at least not for a reasonable fee), and it was also somewhat complex to implement (Type 1 fonts being mostly a subset of the PostScript language), so Apple developed TrueType (and then Microsoft signed on) to compete with Adobe. Adobe eventually released the Type 1 spec for free, but the damage was done.

      That was probably the beginning of the downfall of Adobe from their high-point of technical excellence.

  3. Flash for 64-bit linux by GF678 · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm rather impressed Adobe even updated the alpha 64-bit plugin for Linux at the same time as all the other platforms:

    http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html

    I was kinda expecting they had forgotten about it, so it's nice they didn't.