Flash on iPhone demo begs ‘Why?’
In a year when hackers are expected to make Adobe Flash and Acrobat the focus of their unwanted attentions, there are still people out there who want Flash on the iPhone. I guess it’s a matter of taste, like having bits of metal pushed through your skin or trying the Jackass movie stunts at home.
For those of you who missed the prediction, 2010 is the year when analysts expect Adobe software to displace Microsoft software as the hackers’ attack vector of choice. Thereupon, reports of some new and particularly nasty Flash or Acrobat vulnerability come and go with the weeks as do Adobe’s attempts to keep up with patches — they’re trying.
Further, there’s also the prediction that smartphones and their data-hungry users will increasingly be the target, a problem already affecting Android users, of hackers and their phisher friends.
Now, along comes this Flash on iPhone demo from the open source “Gordon” project (Get it? Flash Gordon), which employs a JavaScript-powered Flash run-time. Looks nice, huh?
Well, forgive my cynicism, but using JavaScript (itself a frequent hacker target) to surreptitiously download from the Internet (hello) and run Flash on an iPhone sounds criminally stupid, rather like plying yourself with drugs and alcohol at a rave and then having unprotected sex.
Sure it’s fun while you’re doing it, but the hangover and rash are something else entirely…
What’s your take?
via TUAW
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January 15th, 2010
The examples were slow on my core duo laptop, can’t imagine it on phone hardware.
January 15th, 2010
the iphone is dead anyway, now that full flash is on the nexus and nokia
January 15th, 2010
“Well, forgive my cynicism, but using JavaScript (itself a frequent hacker target) to surreptitiously download from the internet (hello) and run Flash on an iPhone sounds criminally stupid, rather like plying yourself with drugs and alcohol at a rave and then having unprotected sex.”
LOL, that’s a bit melodramatic isn’t it?
January 17th, 2010
The fact, that there won’t be any Flash support in iPhone, doesn’t make flash bad. Fanboyism is a disease you know…
April 13th, 2010
@John the iphone isnt dead at all, nobody buys a phone purely for flash support.
May 2nd, 2010
You’re a fucking tool buddy, first it doesn’t download flash using javascript. It’s a fucking runtime for the flash bytecode in the swf.
Learn something, then mouth off with your silly, unfounded, jackass opinions you cocksucker.
August 2nd, 2010
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