#Habbo swf viewer update#
#Habbo swf viewer full#

Is it better? Maybe - to a degree the openness of html/css/js is good for obvious reasons. Well guess what - now we've just replaced Flash with a fragmented open landscape.

#Habbo swf viewer full#

Since Flash was killed, we've seen a resurgence of all kinds of heavy JavaScript libraries, and forums like hackernews are full of people complaining about websites being sluggish and slow to load because of the amount of js that's being injected. But I'd argue that this is an indicator that there is a demand for rich content on the web. It's true that many Flash-based apps/websites used more battery power than html/css stuff. In fact, if anything, developing with Flash gave you more control over positioning than html/css did at the time. There's nothing inherent about Flash that made it impossible to support responsive layouts with it. check CVE-2022-22620, only a month ago.Īt the time, (most?) websites didn't adjust for responsive web either. It's not like it's even a new thing, I remember a long time ago when you could jailbreak your iPhone using a website directly.ĭidn't even need to go far either. Speaking of which, in 2020 Zerodium stopped accepting 'Apple iOS LPE, Safari RCE, or sandbox escapes' for a few months because there was too many of them. I don't feel like it would be higher in the black market than what they are offering, but could be. > ($100k-$1M on the black market as I understand it.) It wasn't lower because it was easier (though it may have been easier, not arguing it wasn't, just that the amounts are not evidence of it). Bug bounties at the time were extremely rare. Theses amounts were low because there was no interest in rewarding white hat hackers sadly. These days vulnerabilities of that magnitude are worth way more money, because of how secure the browser environment has become. > Remember how revolutionary pwn2own was? 'Wow, find a vulnerability and win $1000!'. Its really quite remarkable how secure the modern web has become and that wouldn't have been possible if flash were still around. But even then, most randomware doesn't usually take advantage of security vulnerabilities in web browsers. The only reason it feels like security hasn't improved much is because crypto ransomware has made hacking so much more profitable. ($100k-$1M on the black market as I understand it.) Remember how revolutionary pwn2own was? 'Wow, find a vulnerability and win $1000!'. And flash had so many vulnerabilities - if memory serves, flash generally fielded more CVEs in any given year than the entire rest of the browser! It was the norm for people to be running old versions of flash with unpatched security holes.

#Habbo swf viewer update#

Flash (until very near the end of its life) had no sandboxing, and had its own update mechanism. The sheer unending volume of security vulnerabilities flash introduced into browsers was staggering. Modern browser security has gotten orders of magnitude better since Shockwave Flash was removed from web browsers. The web is still to this day unable to deliver an experience like Flash could, and likely will never be able to. These were lies, but Apple's henchmen in tech media, especially Wired and Gawker, repeated this lie endlessly, destroying a creative ecosystem and industry so that Apple could have its App Store. In April, Steve Jobs wrote an open letter, 'Thoughts on Flash', stating, among other things, that HTML5 could deliver a superior experience to Flash and that Flash had such inherent security and performance problems that they could never be rectified. It became obvious something was going on. Adobe offered all help, yet Apple continued to drag its feet. Everyone was clamoring for Apple to add Flash capability to its mobile iPhone browser. If one could play a game in a browser rather than buying it, Apple would lose out on that income. I want to remind everyone what happened, here.īy the beginning of 2010, it was clear that the App Store was likely to become a massive cash cow for Apple.