[flatulentone]

>This bandwagoning dismisses more collective works and industries than any technology in the past just for the sake of promoting bleeding edge, evergreen tech.

Flash needs to go for the sake of our security, not to climb up to a bleeding edge. The security risks are way beyond unacceptable.

Perhaps you could argue that some similar functions in HTML5 have just as serious of threats but additionally lack an off switch??

As for accessing legacy content, treat Flash like Ebola and keep an old machine around for that? It would help if the old machine has no writable flash or drives (or at least includes a non-writable restore image if there's a drive).

If our machines have writable flash for the network adapter, video card, hard drive, bios, and a few other things, how secure can they be? Even our flash isn't safe from Flash.