Adobe Flash must die, die, DIE. Firefox shoots gun loaded by Facebook (and potholer54)
Mozilla Firefox now blocks Adobe Flash, thanks to its horrible ongoing security problems. Not the least of which are the three plugin bugs exploited by Italy’s now-notorious Hacking Team, which we covered yesterday.
The block will last until you’re running a version with all known vulnerabilities patched. After the earlier revelations of three unpatched “zero-day” vulnerabilities in Flash, luminaries from Firefox and Facebook are saying, “Enough is enough!”
tl;dr: Nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
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