Security News > 2020 > October > Adobe Flash – it’s the end of the end of the end of the road at last
Worse still, Flash bugs seemed to show up very frequently as zero-days, the jargon term for exploitable security holes that are found by attackers before a patch is available, thus leaving even the most disciplined and swift-acting system administrators with zero days during which they could have been ahead of the crooks.
If anything showed that Adobe's heart hasn't really been in Flash for many years, it was the story of how Apple banned Flash from the iPhone in 2010.
Probably more because of pressure from users than from any burning desire to keep Flash alive, Adobe soldiered on with Flash updates and security patches for desktop computers for a few years more.
Specifically, we will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020 and encourage content creators to migrate any existing Flash content to [] new open formats.
Give Adobe the chance, at last, to give Flash the final sendoff it has been trying to achieve for years.