Re: FLASH: DoD Policy: attn. Macromedia Support

[Michael@BTW]

Absolutely java or even javascript is a much bigger security risk than

Flash. Macromedia has gone to great lengths to prevent flash from accessing

the system in a destructive way, and banning of it is simply ignorance on

the part of your sys admin. Tell them to check out:

http://www.humboldt.edu/~ac/index2.html

and 

http://www.humboldt.edu/~cdc

we use FLash extensively here, its facilitation of educational content

delivery is excellent, ridiculous for your institution to be so held hostage

by ignorant and paranoid Sys Admins...


> I have the same problem at college. Flash is banned. However, Java seems to

> work, and I would have thought, that would have been more of a security

> issue.

> 

> I don't really see what problems you could get at the college I go to

> anyway, as all settings are reloaded off the server, on reboot. Anything

> that the server doesn't recognise is simply removed again, so the virus

> threat is pretty small.


And there are no Flash viruses anyway, tell your sys admin to check on

http://www.virusbtn.com/

http://vil.mcafee.com/


Interesting, the only hit on McAffee's virus info site flash produced was on

the job board;-)...


http://www.mcafee.com/about/jobs/web_team.asp


> 

> I could quite easily install it, but as the shockwave distribution file

> requires a reboot on some machines (the ones at college included) the flash

> plugin is simply removed again, on reload.


Get the 400k flash only plug-in then, quicker too. Out of curiosity, do they

allow you to use the biggest virus generator of them all? (AKA MS Office)?


> 

> 


=====>

Michael Penney

Sharpener of the Cutting Edge

BigTimeWeb.Com




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