At 3:44 AM -0500 6/16/2010, Kris Tilford wrote:
Apple hasn't yet issued a security update for Tiger, so perhaps it's
truly abandoned forever now?
Or the particular patches aren't applicable to the versions of the
softwares in Tiger. The recent Safari 4.1 for Tiger, btw, included a
boat load of security patches.
Leopard 10.5 Security Update 2010-004 includes the latest Flash
and Shockwave players bundled inside. Evidently Apple thinks Adobe
Flash & Shockwave are such bad security risks that they need to force
the issue and upgrade Apple users en masse.
Which "latest"? Exactly what version? (Adobe has put out several recently).
Tiger 10.4 users should probably download & install the latest Flash &
Shockwave ASAP since Apple & Adobe won't do it for you.
Flash 10.1.53.64 is ok, in that it fixes a number of security
vulnerabilities and has an h.264 codec that performs a tad bit faster
than the one in 10.0.x. But it is LESS stable than the last few
10.0.x releases.
It's a real shame that there isn't automatic updating for Adobe Flash.
Yes, it would be a good idea to force users to put poorly tested
Adobe crap on their systems on a continual basis. sigh.
It's good when a trusted company with a high quality product does
auto-updating. IMO, that's a club that Adobe left a decade ago and
has no interest in joining.
I hope HTML5 makes Flash obsolete.
It will, but it's going to take a few years.
We can all do our part... Install a flash blocker and make sure you
totally block flash-based ads. By blocking them, you are telling
that web site and the ad company that Flash is unacceptable. They'll
get the message as they see the stats and their revenue change.
- Dan.
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