{"id":33727,"date":"2021-01-24T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-24T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=aa30c07c78f4328c62fd9634e8dce09d"},"modified":"2021-01-24T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-24T15:00:00","slug":"chinese-railway-station-knocked-offline-when-flash-stops-being-supported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=33727","title":{"rendered":"Chinese railway station knocked offline when Flash stops being supported"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2021\/01\/24\/chinese-railway-station-knocked-offline-when-flash-stops-being-supported.html\">Boing Boing<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: Oh legacy technology in production, always such a fun time.<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2021\/01\/24\/chinese-railway-station-knocked-offline-when-flash-stops-being-supported.html\" title=\"Chinese railway station knocked offline when Flash stops being supported\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/boingboing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/flash.jpg?fit=1328%2C684&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"Screenshot of dialog box asking to uninstall Flash\" loading=\"lazy\" link_thumbnail=\"1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/boingboing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/flash.jpg?w=1328&amp;ssl=1 1328w,https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/boingboing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/flash.jpg?resize=600%2C309&amp;ssl=1 600w,https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/boingboing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/flash.jpg?resize=930%2C479&amp;ssl=1 930w,https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/boingboing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/flash.jpg?resize=300%2C155&amp;ssl=1 300w,https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/boingboing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/flash.jpg?resize=768%2C396&amp;ssl=1 768w,https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/boingboing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/flash.jpg?w=1328&amp;ssl=1 1328w,https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/boingboing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/flash.jpg?resize=600%2C309&amp;ssl=1 600w,https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/boingboing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/flash.jpg?resize=930%2C479&amp;ssl=1 930w,https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/boingboing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/flash.jpg?resize=300%2C155&amp;ssl=1 300w,https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/boingboing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/flash.jpg?resize=768%2C396&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1328px) 100vw, 1328px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"\/><\/a><p>The railway depot in the city of Dalian, China, <a href=\"https:\/\/technode.com\/2021\/01\/19\/thrills-suspense-flash-updates-dalian-railway-tech-support-goes-viral\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">was thrown into chaos on Jan. 12 when Adobe triggered a kill-switch to end its support of Flash.<\/a> It turns out &hellip; it was critical for a bunch of their systems!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the techs who run IT for the station appeared to have quite a sense of humor about it, though, because as they scrambled to revert to an earlier version of Flash, <a href=\"https:\/\/technode.com\/2021\/01\/19\/thrills-suspense-flash-updates-dalian-railway-tech-support-goes-viral\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">they posted real-time WeChat updates about their struggle &mdash; \"in the style of a military thriller, written with all the self-awareness of Dwight from 'The Office',<\/a>\" as David Cohen and Yue Sun quipped on Technode. &mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2021\/01\/24\/chinese-railway-station-knocked-offline-when-flash-stops-being-supported.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the rest <\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The railway depot in the city of Dalian, China, was thrown into chaos on Jan. 12 when Adobe trigger&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=33727\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}