Re: FLASH: Online banking in flash

[Wayne Pennell \( Web Master \)]

Ahh generator sorry I thought your message said generating from flash.  =P

Thus happens when your posting to 5 groups at once.


-W

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From: "phillip m. torrone" <

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Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 1:21 PM

Subject: Re: FLASH: Online banking in flash



> no havoc, i think you're getting flash variables and generator variables

> confused. the swfs (they're actually swts) that the banking system uses

are

> dynamically generated that only work within your session and per request

at

> that. you could decompile the swt with a hex editor \ ASViewer i suppose,

> if you could get a hold of it those very secure swts from the very secure

> file system (unlikely), but all you would just see are place holders for

> data and actionscripts. somewhat like this: {my account}, {my cashola} go

> to label {my label} load movie {mycheckingmovie}, even the data sources

are

> variables {my data source}.

>

> check out generator, the server component of flash and what built the web

> application you saw. i think that will give you an idea of what's

possible.

>

> http://www.macromedia.com/generator

>

> cheers,

>

> phillip m. torrone

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> At 12:43 PM 7/6/00 -0400, you wrote:

> >Nope, not what I was thinking good call on back button though.   I was

> >thinking one could deconstruct your swf file since there are progs out

there

> >to do so as well as view your FS or action script.   It's conceivable to

get

> >those variables and place some havoc.

> >

> >Wayne Pennell

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