Chinese Railway Dispatch System Crashes After Adobe Flash Stops Running

A window on an internet browser shows that it blocked the Adobe Flash plugin from activating due to a security issue, in Berlin, Germany, on July 14, 2015. Sean Gallup/Getty Images

A Chinese railway depot recently lost access to its local dispatching system after U.S.-based software company Adobe stopped supporting the Flash Player program. The local railway system was paralyzed as a result.

The depot’s IT workers chronicled their attempt to fix the technical issue on Chinese social media, written in a war diary style.