Flash Is Dead—but Not Gone
On January 12, just after 8:15 am local time, computers started to malfunction at the Dalian Train Operation Depot in northeast China. The dispatcher’s browsers weren’t loading train schedule details. Six hours later, dispatchers also lost the ability to print train data from the web app. According to the depot’s account on Weibo and WeChat, and a follow up post a couple of days later, the system flickered on and off for 20 hours before IT staff finally stabilized it. The culprit appears to have been a seismic, but not unforeseen, shift on the internet: the death of Adobe Flash Player.
