Facebook's new chief security officer wants to set a date to kill Flash

Stamos is not calling for Adobe to immediately pull the plug on Flash, of course, but instead, for Adobe to announce an eventual retirement date for the software, giving websites the time to move to more secure technology like HTML5. Flash has been suffering from shrinking relevance in recent years, with former strongholds like Facebook

Stamos is not calling for Adobe to immediately pull the plug on Flash, of course, but instead, for Adobe to announce an eventual retirement date for the software, giving websites the time to move to more secure technology like HTML5. Flash has been suffering from shrinking relevance in recent years, with former strongholds like Facebook games collapsing (see the burnout of Zynga), and YouTube moving away from the technology (in January this year this company deprecated Flash in favor of HTML5). Still, the transition would be difficult for smaller companies an if it really is time for Flash to die, it's likely to be a long, painful struggle.

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