After Twenty Years of Flash, Adobe Kills the Name (thestack.com)

Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 1, 2015 @02:39AM from the let's-call-the-next-one-burnination dept.

An anonymous reader writes: From January 2016, Adobe Flash will be renamed to 'Adobe Animate CC', killing one of the most unfortunate names in web security as the company pushes the product further and further to HTML5 output. Adobe's release about the update, which will form part of the annual Creative Cloud upgrade, states that a third of all material output from the program is now HTML5. The transitional HTML5 Adobe animation program Edge Animate will be replaced by the renamed Flash product.

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A rose by any other name... by RavenLrD20k · 2015-12-01 02:43 · Score: 5, Insightful

A Rose by any other name still smells as sweet.
Adobe Flash by any other name still reeks of shit.
Ah, yes, a standard security technique. by jeffb+(2.718) · 2015-12-01 02:46 · Score: 5, Insightful

I think I remember that from one of my computer-security classes. Sanitize all your inputs, do length checks to avoid buffer overflows, and if those don't work, change your product's name.