Secondly, the man behind Ninite – Sascha Kuzins – is a good guy. First off, as I stressed above, Ninite's installer downloads the files directly from Adobe. Let me preempt the argument that Ninite is somehow "insecure because it's not directly from Adobe". It is downright vindictive to demand that third parties cease providing unified tools that augment the security of the internet by cleaning up the mess they made in the first place by shipping software as insecure as Flash. It is demeaning that Adobe should resort to attempting to bamboozle users with trial installer nagware in the pursuit of a few more coppers. For those who do know enough to download the updates for Flash manually, Adobe attempts to foist upon them a trial version of McAfee Antivirus! This merely makes the whole Ninite situation more galling. Even if they did, the majority can't be bothered. The alternative – a manual download – is something most users don't even know how to do. This is assuming the PC is running a version of Flash that can update itself. It fails to apply the upgrades and security fixes required on far too many occasions. That patch must either be disseminated through the vendor's update application or manually downloaded by the user.Īdobe's solution to the security problem is decidedly half-arsed: the software giant's updater, which kicks into life when it notices the installed version of Flash is out of date, is a bug-ridden example of the unfathomable number of methods by which an application can crash. (No, the abomination formerly known as Windows 8's Metro and its software store spawn do not count.) When a security flaw is discovered in an app a patch must be issued by the software's vendor to fix it. Unlike modern smartphones, Windows PCs do not have a foolproof mechanism by which third-party applications can be kept up to date. Ninite – and other applications like it – are the good guys of the internet. Far more importantly, Ninite and its ilk are used to ensure that these applications are kept up-to-date. Ninite is used by systems administrators and ordinary folk alike to install common third-party software.
I'm going to explain why this is a terrible thing.įirst, though, I would like to discuss the real-world practical uses of products such as Ninite.
Sysadmin blog Adobe wants the ability to easily roll out Flash updates removed from Ninite, the sysadmin Swiss army knife.
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