The Fighter Got Lost: Ultima Forever Wallpaper
As is my wont, I took the liberty of grabbing a copy of the wallpaper that graces the background of the official Ultima Forever Twitter account. They changed it…at some point in the last month or two, to a version of the first image we saw that featured the female Paladin, which is also used as the loading screen in the game proper:
The version from Twitter, however, has left the Fighter behind somewhere:
One assumes that he was removed because he would be more or less totally obscured by the Twitter interface, but it’s still interesting to see him omitted. I guess, in this case, the Mage and the Paladin will just have to clean up the undead mess by themselves.
At any rate, you can grab the wallpaper from the Ultima Forever wallpaper gallery.
Or even more likely, he looked way too much like this shit (1:08 since embedded YouTube URLs here don’t support “t=1m8s” apparently):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSC6mlP2CGc&feature=youtu.be&t=1m8s
Yeah, the support for YouTube links is fairly basic, and drops almost everything after the video URL proper. Mostly an anti-malicious activity feature, I would suppose.
Hmmm. Over zealous perhaps (the software, not thee). I’m no security expert, but if the URL relayed to the browser has a legitimate beginning, such as http://youtube.com/ then what follows couldn’t possibly be malicious in a proper browser. Not a big deal, but certainly curious.
Mmm…you could still try and supply malformed parameters, in the hopes that some viewers might be running an out of date Flash version. It’s been a while since I’ve cruised Metasploit, but I seem to recall the existence of Flash-based attacks that used malformed, script-bearing parameters to achieve privilege escalation.
God help us then. Maybe Flash should be banned. Fuck banned. It should be nail-gunned to 4×8 plywood sheath as vivisection practice for a party of sadists. I think this may fall into the “this is why we can’t have nice things” category. Java too, for that matter (thanks Oracle!).
Yeah…the stuff I learn and encounter in my line of work is scary a lot of the time, especially because so much of it is automated now, to the point of being easy for even a marginally tech-savvy person.
It’s worth noting that Apple has basically kept Flash off its mobile OS since day one, preferring HTML5 and MPEG-4 as video delivery options. Not that there aren’t vulnerabilities with those, but they aren’t quite as porous as Flash has tended to be, historically speaking. Windows Phone has also (I think) dropped Flash support, and it’s an optional install on Android if memory serves. And for as much criticism as has been piled on to all three mobile OSs for their lack of native Flash support, I for one think it’s a smart move keeping Flash off of them.
It’s still prevalent on many desktop OSs, of course, and will be for a while still. But I think it’s starting to be on the way out, and good riddance if so. Ditto Java, for that matter.