SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
Games and animation site Newgrounds announced it is working on a way to play Flash content via emulation.
Ruffle is an open source Adobe Flash Player emulator written in Rust. It targets desktop and the web using Web Assembly, so unlike the plugin (which is scheduled for end-of-life in 2020), any security issues would be issues with the web browser itself.
While the creation of new Flash content instead of modern technology seems a Bad Idea, this Soylentil for one would be quite happy to replay some of the classics (which stopped working when the plugin was banned from his system).
[ Ed Note: the source article claims that open source is the reason why there won't be any vulnerabilities: "For anyone who is concerned about Flash's reputation for security - this project is entirely open source and any security issues would be issues with the web browser itself, whereas the traditional Flash plugin was a closed system that created unique opportunities for exploits." - Fnord666]
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Monday August 26 2019, @10:17PM
Well, being in Rust it won't have many memory leaks or free-before-use bugs.
And any exploits in those old games will probably be attacking old bugs, different from the ones in the *new* implementation.
Now we need to figure out how to download these swf files so that they can be divorced from the websites they are on, which websites may not be around next year.
And is there any flash decompiler so we have a hope of figuring out how the old games work in case they need to be patched?
-- hendrik