Facebook Chief Security Officer Calls for Adobe Flash Kill Date
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Adobe Systems Inc.’s Flash language for Web design has been dying for years. Facebook Inc.’s chief security officer wants a kill date.
The legacy websites that are still using Flash, entangled with newer types of coding, are causing security issues for the Web at large, Facebook’s Alex Stamos said. Yet some developers don’t have enough motivation to upgrade their sites because they expect Adobe to support Flash forever, he said.