Flash offline after end of life

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May 13, 2020
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We know that as of this December all web browsers will disable the Flash plugin and the plugin and player itself will both be pulled via Adobe, as well, via updates.

We’re tasked to find out if it is possible for a machine to be offline from the internet altogether and not receive updates and Flash to still work... or will it have “touch base” technology in the software that “checks home base” and disables if it doesn’t reach Adobe (similar to what MS and Apple do on some products).

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Anonymous

By the way, this is for an enterprise so no hacks or work-a-rounds. Just needing to know if it can work off-line...

chris.campbell

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Please see this page for details: https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/enterprise-end-of-life.html

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Anonymous

This reply confused me more... so I read the Adobe PDF and Enterprise Enablement makes no sense... if Flash is deprecated and uninstalled by the browsers, how will it even exist to HAVE an Adobe whitelist post Dec 2020? Is this just for the June - December 2020 timeframe?

My question is this... can we take a Windows PC and shut off all internet traffic and just allow INTERNAL traffic so it will not update IE and Adobe Flash and therefore it will still use the old IE that allows Flash? In other words, the machine wouldn't even know that Flash is deprecated. Will that be possible? Because we're thinking of having our end users use Citrix to remote internally into such a Windows PC that is offline from INTERNET traffic and they can run internally hosted flash content from there. Will that work?

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