Alex Stamos said what we all have been thinking for years

Jul 13, 2015 21:03 GMT  ·  By

Alex Stamos, Yahoo's former and Facebook's current CSO (Chief Security Officer), is calling out Adobe on Twitter and demanding that the company kill off Flash once and for all.

Adobe's Flash technology is visibly less secure with every new day, with the company shifting more and more resources to its HTML5-based products.

The company has also been releasing security fixes every month this year, and the recent Hacking Team zero-day vulnerability didn't help either, being the second zero-day vulnerability Adobe fixed in the last two weeks.

The bad news is that Adobe has two more critical vulnerabilities which it didn't get to fix, bugs which can grant an attacker control of the affected system.

You may see why industry experts like Mr. Stamos seem to have had enough with Adobe's little toy and are ready to move on to an alternative product, like Mozilla's Shumway or HTML5-based solutions.

Moving away from Flash won't be a two-month plan, and even if it may take three, four, or five years, some security experts just want Adobe to commit to an end of life (EOL) date, just like Microsoft did with Windows XP.

It may hurt the company when it pulls the band-aid, but they will be able focus with all their efforts toward newer products.