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It is very strange to me, also, that Adobe Flash keeps getting hammered, when HTML5 plus JavaScript, often touted as the inevitable (and "secure") successor, is IMHO far more vulnerable and un-patchable.
With JavaScript (and, with or without HTML5), you can fundamentally modify the behavior of almost every aspect of the system, dynamically. Without changing one scrap of the "secure" source-code that you are executing, you can transform its behavior for good or for ill. When "2+2" can be made to no longer equal "4," you have a problem.
Also, the purported exploit merely led you to an exploit-URL. It did not, and it could not have, "quietly installed" anything at all without being permitted to do so. You can lead a horse to a pool, but you can't make him drink piss.
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