John Dowdell (a Macromedia/Adobe blogger) and Alex Barnett would like me to elucidate further on my claims that Flash has secret backdoors and that the company only exposes those doors - via secret deals.

Let me start off my saying this feels like a bait and hook - lawsuit game played by Macromedia bloggers and their cohorts. So there’s no way I’m gonna play that game. What I will do is elucidate on is the one personal experience I have knowledge of.

I find it amusing that a Macromedia employee would not fess up to the fact that Macromedia has had SUPERIOR audio capabilities available - undocumented - in the Flash player for some time now. This ‘improved performance’ capability is documented ONLY to their friends, partners and deals.

Thosew whoa ren;t on the inside - don’t get this knowledge.

What’s that called?

We alll know of the rumors of spyware that Macromedia was placing onto people’s machines. I just spent some time trying to track down those rumors . I found over 1.2M hits in Google on “Flash” + “backdoor”. Then if you narrow down the search to “Flash player” and “backdoor” it goes down to a measly 68,000 hits.

I just don’t have enough time today (football, playing Dora interactive games with my daughters, cooking fine stews, attending book release parties) and quite frankly - I just don’t care enough. But I bet some EFF type could track the truth down.

Notice I’m not bringing up Flex at all. Or the upcoming 8.5 - which is clearly the biggets improvemnet over Flash - in YEARS - and why it’s called 8.5 instead of 9.0. Seems like a dis-information campaign to me.

So I’m not sure if undocumented superior audio performance hooks is called a backdoor or what - but I still find it kind of funny that if Macromedia claims that 98% of the web has Flash installed - why our good friends at Google would pass on them - for inclusion in the Google Pack.

Makes you wanna say “Hmmmmmmmmmm”.

Who knows - maybe merging with Adobe was a good thing and that they’ll be exposing this superior audio stuff in version 8.5. We’ll have to see.

Either way - I sure wish that Kevin Lynch would go find himself a job at a better place. He’s too nice of a guy to stay associated with these ‘types of people’.

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