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Adobe: Click-to-Play Would Have Avoided Flood of Java Zero-days

Posted by Soulskill on from the of-pots-and-kettles dept.

mask.of.sanity writes: Oracle could have saved mountains of cash and bad press if Click-to-Play was enabled before Java was hosed by an armada of zero day vulnerabilities, Adobe security boss Brad Arkin says. The simple fix introduced into browsers over the last year stopped the then zero day blitzkrieg in its tracks by forcing users to click a button to enable Java.

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  1. Hindsight... by MCROnline · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...is such a beautiful thing.

  2. Re:also applies to flash and acrobat by i+kan+reed · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's why we all have flashblock, right?

  3. Re:LOL Users are going to click obliviously by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Do you really think I'm going to click on that link?

  4. Re:Click-to-Play Would Improve Flash, Too by countach · · Score: 2, Funny

    You realise the web site you are typing into now uses Javascript, and therefore you have just classified it as malware, right?