On Oct 14, 2012, at 3:52 PM, Chris Pearce <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 13/10/12 07:20, Carr, Wayne wrote:
>> There’s a recent post on a phishing attack using the full screen api 
>> [1][2}[3].
> 
> It's worth noting that this attack has been possible in Flash for years, and 
> the sky hasn't fallen.

For most of that time, Flash has either not allowed any keyboard input, or 
allowed only non-alphanumeric keys. That has significantly different security 
characteristics against a phishing threat model than full-keyboard-enabled 
fullscreen.

Just recently (in Flash 11.3) they added optional full keyboard input, but that 
puts up a separate permission prompt and doesn't pass through keys until the 
user approves.

Regards,
Maciej

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