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China Railroad Stops When Adobe Finally Turns off Flash
Apple Daily ^ | 1/17/21 | Hong Kong Apple Daily

Posted on 01/22/2021 9:49:06 AM PST by Quality_Not_Quantity

The railroad system in Dalian, northern China, collapsed citywide on Tuesday for up to 20 hours after the Adobe Flash programing software stopped running.

Adobe had announced as early as 2017 that it would cease support for the multimedia software on Dec. 30 last year. The American software company eventually ended the operation of all Flash content on Tuesday.

Tuesday’s chaos arose after China Railway Shenyang failed to deactivate Flash in time, leading to a complete shutdown of its railroads in Dalian, Liaoning province. Staffers were reportedly unable to view train operation diagrams, formulate train sequencing schedules and arrange shunting plans.

Authorities fixed the issue by installing a pirated version of Flash at 4:30 a.m. the following day.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Technical
KEYWORDS: adobe; flash
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Wait. What? They got the system back up with a PIRATED version of Flash. I'm shocked.
1 posted on 01/22/2021 9:49:07 AM PST by Quality_Not_Quantity
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Oops.....


2 posted on 01/22/2021 9:51:14 AM PST by nevergore (I have a terrible rash on my covfefe....)
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This happened in our company, we still had a few apps written in Flex years ago that were still being used.


3 posted on 01/22/2021 9:52:05 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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I bet they were already using a pirated version of Flash but then they had to switch to a hacked version of Flash to get it running again.


4 posted on 01/22/2021 9:52:43 AM PST by DannyTN
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The Party will send some officials to jail for this.


5 posted on 01/22/2021 9:53:58 AM PST by PGR88
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Someone’s going to the chulag.


6 posted on 01/22/2021 9:54:11 AM PST by TangoLimaSierra
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As if they were using a licensed version.


7 posted on 01/22/2021 9:54:35 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (You are in far more danger from an authoritarian government than you are from a seasonal virus.)
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Even MORE shocking is that the system was running on a legitimately licensed, legal copy of Flash in the first place!


8 posted on 01/22/2021 9:59:52 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Democracy Dies With Democrats)
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China Railroad Stops When Adobe Finally Turns off Flash

Reported by "Apple Daily" - maybe it cut off their shipments of iPhones from their child labor factory.

9 posted on 01/22/2021 10:00:46 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction". It is dying on Our Watch.)
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Y2FLASH!!!


10 posted on 01/22/2021 10:01:47 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Call on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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I don’t know anything about what Adobe did for my computer but after several notifications, I uninstalled mine and haven’t noticed any difference......


11 posted on 01/22/2021 10:02:16 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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This is hilarious. Adobe stopped supporting Flash because so few developers would use it any more. I got messages every other day, starting two months ago, that it would be discontinued. Surely the Chinese were already using a pirated version or they would have also received the messages.


12 posted on 01/22/2021 10:03:33 AM PST by Savage Rider
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13 posted on 01/22/2021 10:33:05 AM PST by Spirochete
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Authorities fixed the issue by installing a pirated version of Flash at 4:30 a.m. the following day.

Everything is pirated in China. Even the Wuhan Flu was stolen from bats.

14 posted on 01/22/2021 10:34:50 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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And they say Asians are the smarter ones. LOL


15 posted on 01/22/2021 11:00:58 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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While it’s cute to see it happen in China, it’s scary to think that entire train systems can be shutdown by basically a ‘software glitch’.


16 posted on 01/22/2021 11:06:46 AM PST by BobL (TheDonald.win is now Patriots.win)
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Tech Ping


17 posted on 01/22/2021 11:17:41 AM PST by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack )
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Back in the early days of the Internet, I was a Flash master, creating dazzling, leading edge, world class websites utilizing (then Macromedia) Flash. One of the last websites I built with Flash earned the 2007 W3 Silver Award for Website Creative Excellence.

I haven’t had Flash installed on my browsers in years.

It’s dead, Jim.


18 posted on 01/22/2021 11:25:37 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (We flattened the heck out of that curve, didn’t we?)
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They had the AOL support number on their backup tape, but nobody could find the 8-track player.


19 posted on 01/22/2021 11:28:51 AM PST by dead (Trump puts crazy glue on their grenades and they never know it until after they pull the pin.)
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The Opera browser uses Flash and it corrupted my Aptik transport software when I tried to install Linux Mint Cinnamon on a new system. I had to completely remove Opera for Aptik to work again. Adobe has caused numerous problems. The system would hang waiting for a response from Adobe. Flash, good residences that it is gone.

Good Hunting... from Varmint Al

20 posted on 01/22/2021 11:33:36 AM PST by Varmint Al
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