Flash

What an annoyance. Since its inception as Macromedia Flash in 1996 and subsequent sponsorship by closed-source counterrevolutionaries Adobe, Flash has represented a blight, a parasite which converts bandwidth and attention into broken web pages, security holes and entropy.

64-bit Linux

• Heavens be semi-praised, there's a closed alpha build of 64-bit flash.
  • New release as of 2008-12-16. Dank 23:38, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Security, lack thereof

• Matasano Chargen's review of Mark Dowd's X-Force writeup, written 2008-04-15
• McAfee Avert Labs' update to this 2008-05-27 post.