[Silent_Buddha]

Ouch, after giving Adobe so much flak for security vulnerabilities in Flash, I wonder if Apple will also now start to ban their own browser.

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=18723

Using this exploit from March...

http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Safari_XPS_Attack

Appears Chrome is the only webkit browser not vulnerable. Allows you to bypass port blocking...

That's a lot of hackable ipads and iphones.

[edit] Hmmm, was going to change title as on second thought, it isn't exactly very descriptive. But can't change, damn.

Regards,
SB

[Albuquerque]

Chrome FTW

[Grall]

I believe Apple's claim was that flash would be ANOTHER vector for attacks (one which Apple itself has no control over or ability to patch), not that their own software was entirely error-free and secure...

Of course, there's also the business angle, where flash apps could bypass the apple store, which is a big reason apple's spreading fud about flash, but I'm inclined to agree with apple regarding the security angle. Adobe apps simply aren't secure, nor are they light-weight or fast either. Flash itself is TERRIBLY badly coded, and acrobat's no better. They're both amongst the sloppiest, slowest pieces of software I've ever seen. Flash's video playback/scaling and software 3D rendering are both embarrassingly, pathetically slow, and acrobat is a monstrous hog of CPU cycles and memory. Simply awful, AWFUL software that should just be plain fucking nuked off the face of planet earth.

It's not exactly a bad thing that flash isn't supported on the iphone, IMO...