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by dispose13432 3453 days ago
>They could have just as easily wrote their own fast and secure implementations of flash and Java instead of disabling them. Especially for Java given Google's deep experience with it and that they already have their own runtime.

Yup, Google should:

1. Reverse Engineer a proprietary language/API (Flash).

2. Write a secure VM for it (Flash and Java), trying to hit a moving target.

or

Get everyone to use an open, standardized tech (HTML5/js).

Can you give me one reason Google should prop up Flash?