[LINK] Any one else suffering Adobephobia?

Rick Welykochy rick at vitendo.ca
Wed Jul 15 06:37:19 AEST 2015


David Lochrin wrote:
> On 2015-07-10 11:12 Rick Welykochy wrote:
>
>> A question arises from the above list of country bumpkin programming gaffs.  Can Adobe not afford software sourcecode analysis kits?  They ain't that expensive and would at least alert programmers at this august company to the presence of ALL of the above exploits.
> I'm often amazed by an apparent lack of understanding of the end-to-end software engineering process (including user-interface design, program documentation & version control, and various levels of testing) in organisations you'd think should know better.  I wonder whether some of it arises from a poorly managed, or completely misunderstood, attempt at agile development.

It is getting worst. Six days lafter the last mess was admited to by Adobe, we have this:

https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/reader/apsb15-15.html

an update which contains over FORTY CVEs.

This little punter is going to remove Flash completely and see how the Internet and YouTube
fly without it.


cheers
rickw


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