Maybe the Dalian railroad applied that practice - we don’t know. A piece of critical infrastructure is now using (albeit for noncritical tasks) a technology known to be outdated.Ī separate but related point is that many large companies roll out their updates piecemeal because good practice dictates testing updates by starting with machines in an isolated test environment. Adobe Flash is now up and running, and everything is back to normal as far as that goes.įrom an information security perspective, the achievement is hardly praiseworthy. Whatever the case, the tech support team pulled out all the stops and ultimately got Adobe Flash working on the computers at stations along the line, returning the systems to operation. Officials essentially denied the problem. Media mentioned dispatching and ticketing issues. Whether Flash directly caused travel disruption and exactly what systems were involved are disputed, and not really the point. Why anyone, on January 12, would still find themselves reliant on Flash, is frankly beyond rational comprehension, but on that day, some of Dalian’s rail systems were still using the platform.
Despite the official date on the death certificate, January 1, Adobe added a grace period, giving users 11 more days to bid Flash farewell. Accounts of the severity of the incident differ, but all agree on one thing: The end of Flash-based content caused the malfunction. A railroad in DalianĮxactly what happened in January, on a railway line in Dalian, China, is disputed. Now, forty days after shutdown, we take a look at how the world is coping (or not) without Adobe Flash. Moreover, some techno-necromancers began to invent ways to raise the technology from the grave. Is the world ready, though? It turns out that not everyone switched to other tools despite years of advance notice from Adobe. Some fans of old browser-based games got misty, but most infosec experts breathed a sigh of relief as the world got ready to live without the distinguished but now dead technology.
At the beginning of 2021, Adobe Flash officially ceased to exist.
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