RE: FLASH: Flash Functionality Verification

[Brad Merritt]

John,

True, it would be great, especially for us game programmers who have our

scoreboards, info, etc driven by local databases, so we can only serve the

games off our servers.


The risk is you could say:

Load Variable

server.domain.com/somefolder/somefile.txt


And look at that, you have have someones files. This would only work with

people's NT machines which are configured incorrectly, but that happens

pretty often it would seem.


hacking with Flash, pretty funny huh?


As far as implementation without risk, I have not heard anything about it.


brad



Subject: Re: FLASH: Flash Functionality Verification


Thanks Brad,


That is unfortunate. This capability would really put Flash over the

top as a development tool, as well as benefitting the web community

by reducing traffic and server loads. Has there been any discussion

as to how this could be implemented without the security risk? What

are the risks?


Thanks,

John



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