@Wolfie2K3 That's the MAIN problem with this story! They fail to differentiate the that newest FLASH is a whole different beast! ....and it has not been affected whatsoever by any of those vulnerabilities, that are for some versions that are now many years old. Those are accumulated vulnerabilities for OLD versions period!
Now I know you haven't even done your research and most of all haven't (if you've even bothered to download it or have the hardware to support acceleration) even explored the new "Global Settings" panel that's only accessible via a "Remote Authentication Link" on Adobe's site. You click the panel open there and only there. You can't access it via your own computer, even though the panel accesses your computer's FLASH controls from within your computer for security!
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"A critical vulnerability has been discovered in Adobe Flash Player 10.0.45.2 and Adobe Reader/Acrobat 9.x. The newest available version of Adobe Flash 10.1, Release Candidate 7 (available at http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/ ), does not appear to contain this vulnerability , and we recommend that everyone upgrade their Flash player as soon as possible. Earlier versions of Adobe Reader and Acrobat, specifically version 8.x, do not appear to contain this vulnerability, either."
There are 8 tabs within this new global settings panel including security settings. The browser right click Menu on a video now has man new feature choices and a 5 tab panel with a enable/disable acceleration control under the first tab!
LEARN TO USE WHAT ADOBE HAS BEEN WORKING ON TO MAKE FLASH BETTER and MORE SECURE..... then you can criticize it!!!
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