Subject: No Flash To Me
From: Flash_Sender@Microsoft_Addict
Sender: Flash_Sender@Microsoft_Addict

I append http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/std/no_flash_to_me.txt

Hi,
Thanks for your reference to a website, 
but that site was crippled by requiring Flash, so was Not read.

Flash requires a browser to install & run proprietary binary code
from Adobe who refuse to make their source code public. Flash is
not trusted as it cannot be inspected.  Even though Adobe also offer
versions for Linux, there's still none for BSD http://berklix.com/~jhs/bsd/
or other OSs & one still can't check flash code, or compile for
other versions of OSs & CPUs.

Flash can run on Linux as a binary, & on BSD with Linux emulation,
    http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html
But it would still be insecure, & I have no time to waste keeping
computers aligned with compatible releases of flash, emulator, OS,
32/64 & CPU types & tricks, & latest panic nsecurity updates, &
encapsulating the mess in a security sandbox, just because the Flash
vendor refuses to publish sources.

Another Flash security leak & in-security upgrade: 2014-02-04
 http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb14-04.html
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26045740
 http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2014-February/089594.html

Another panic upgrade 2015-06-14:
 http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-33255033
 
There is also an FSF GNU flash in source for FreeBSD, but problematic
  http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=gnash&stype=all
At 2017-12-10 FreeBSD current has these & others:
  graphics/gnash
  www/flashplayer
  www/linux-flashplayer
  www/swfdec-plugin	(Mozilla plugin)

HTML5 is a better way to go.
BBC are planning (at 2011-12 & still at 2014-02) to offer HTML-5
but it will take time.
	http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/help/7277283.stm#html5

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