i just checked my firefox plugins for updates (before something stupid breaks on me...again >.>) and the page where firefox checks and shows which plugins/addons/etc. need updating has a big red warning saying the following:

All versions of Adobe’s Flash Player plugin are currently vulnerable.

edit: heres a bit more info.

Well, good thing I don't plan on updating Flash.

Everything Adobe creates (apart from Photoshop) has been vulnerable since version 1. The only difference is if there is a known and abused exploit at the moment, or not.

NotMeNotYou said:
Everything Adobe creates (apart from Photoshop) has been vulnerable since version 1. The only difference is if there is a known and abused exploit at the moment, or not.

these seem to be more of those 0-day vulnerabilities. also looks like facebook's security chief thinks flash should die (article. >.> course i've never really caredmuch about facebook anyway.

webm wins

Lance_Armstrong said:
webm wins

If I understand correctly webm is not competition for flash. It doesn't allow any interaction.
Html5 and unity allow to make interactive animations like flash but they are not supported on e621.

Granberia said:
If I understand correctly webm is not competition for flash. It doesn't allow any interaction.

True but interaction includes government-sponsored hacker interaction with your computer.

We're sorta secure here, since e621 disallows script access (you can't control a flash animation via script)

As for other alternatives, besides Unity and Flash, there's Java (naw, just kidding), HTML5 (canvas+javascript) and maybe SVG (needs scripting too but I guess it's an option too)