Am Montag, 3. Februar 2020, 09:39:11 CET schrieb Rodney Baker: > On Monday, 3 February 2020 18:27:13 ACDT Stefan Seyfried wrote: > > Am 03.02.20 um 01:34 schrieb Tony Mechelynck: > > > > > > Thanks for updating Flash to 32.0.0.314-lp151.1.1, this solves my> > > > problem > > > (for the time being). ;-) > > > > Next time, it's your turn to do it... I will not do it again. > > It is worth noting that there are a number of industrial (and other) control > systems that run on secure networks that still (unfortunately) rely on > Flash. For example, FLIR Systems FLUX video incident detection systems used > in road transport industry - the user interface is Flash-based and I'm not > aware of any plans to update it to HTML5 (sadly). > > VMWare Vsphere is also Flash-based, although the new versions have both > HTML5 and Flash GUI's - unfortunately there are some operations that can > only be performed through the Flash interface because they're not yet > implemented in HTML5. > > I'm fairly sure there are also SCADA applications based on Flash, as well as > Java (for better or worse). > > It's almost getting to the point where the only way to use these systems is > using obsolete Internet Explorer 11 on Windows. I know Flash is a security > nightmare, but Flash on IE11 is even more so.
While I share your sentiments, my gut feeling is, that you bark at the wrong tree here. Everybody, who is suffering from this disease has two options: * help with keeping the package up to date * complain loudly at the manufacturers, that still depend on this shit Packman isn't a industrial strategy agency, it just covers your ass. Cheers, Pete _______________________________________________ Packman mailing list [email protected] http://lists.links2linux.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/packman
