Chinese railway stopped by out of date software

[Kris]

I have just seen a story about a Chinese railway being forced to stop services because they used Flash as software to run the railway. When Flash was stopped a week or so ago the railway could not run. 

 

https://jalopnik.com/when-adobe-stopped-flash-content-from-running-it-also-s-1846109630?fbclid=IwAR0t0MwsxmJFHLvd2FMUiHM_44DbrY1JxV7Y2-ge0lrOAi3C2XuAKLVkSOU

 

[Halvarras]

Interesting story - even I knew Flash was on the skids and believe me my ear is nowhere near the ground on things like this, so how on earth they missed the three-year-plus warning when their whole operation depended on it is baffling!

[rab]

2 hours ago, Neil Phillips said:

Interesting story - even I knew Flash was on the skids and believe me my ear is nowhere near the ground on things like this, so how on earth they missed the three-year-plus warning when their whole operation depended on it is baffling!

Probably a pirate copy so they didn't get the updates/warnings

[Dagworth]

7 minutes ago, rab said:

Probably a pirate copy so they didn't get the updates/warnings

Did you read the article? They got the railway running again by installing a pirate version!

 

Andi

[AMJ]

Flash has too many security implications maybe the FBI will hack them in a reverse to Chinese hacking the west!