There was a story out that they had fixed Adobe and it was safe. This sounds like an old story to me. Why did he not say what to replace flash with?
They DID fix it. Many, many times. Now even more problems have appeared:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3441502/posts
Everyone -well, most everyone... is recommending that it be uninstalled due to the continually repeating discoveries of problems with it.