[mschuster91]

> If Macromedia had a handle on it, it would not have been the dumpster fire it was when Adobe bought it. Flash was buggy as hell.

No matter who owned it, Flash was a security nightmare throughout its existence, just as ActiveX and Java applets were.

The key thing is, these things were created in a time when there were far less bad actors on the Internet - not just because finding an actually working version of IDA was a challenge in itself but also because the financial aspect motivating bad actors these days (i.e. botnets, crypto malware) just wasn't existing or at least was sorta confined to nation-state actors. Plugin vendors could get away with an awful lot of utter bullshit back in the early '00s.

[j45]

Truthfully though, what wasn't a security nightmare back then in some way?

Doesn't negate what you said just actually trying to think of some positive rich media app technologies.

[dylan604]

>Truthfully though, what wasn't a security nightmare back then in some way?

Collecting data from a form sent via POST to be processed server side?

[j45]

Haha, touché.

[anthk]

Blaster. Sasser. Malware everywhere. IE with Active X was hell.