Re: [flexcoders] Benefits of Flash Security Model and crossdomain.xml

2006-02-14 Thread Anatole Tartakovsky
vsky - Original Message - From: David Mendels To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 9:53 PM Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Benefits of Flash Security Model and crossdomain.xml Hi, It has nothing to do with license validation.

Re: [flexcoders] Benefits of Flash Security Model and crossdomain.xml

2006-02-14 Thread John Dowdell
Eric Raymond wrote: My main question is who is this model intended to protect? Other folks had good info... another way I've seen to get the idea across is that this same domain sandboxing is a necessity because the clientside Macromedia Flash Player can execute behind a firewall, so

Re: [flexcoders] Benefits of Flash Security Model and crossdomain.xml

2006-02-14 Thread Anatole Tartakovsky
hn Dowdell To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 2:53 PM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Benefits of Flash Security Model and crossdomain.xml Eric Raymond wrote: My main question is who is this model intended to protect?Other folks had good info... another way

[flexcoders] Benefits of Flash Security Model and crossdomain.xml

2006-02-13 Thread Eric Raymond
I must be missing something, but I'm a bit confused as to the design of the Flash Security Model and crossdomain.xml. My main question is who is this model intended to protect? As I undestand it, this protects third party servers from disclosing their data to flash clients. That is, if you do

RE: [flexcoders] Benefits of Flash Security Model and crossdomain.xml

2006-02-13 Thread Dekayd Media Inc.
It protects Adobe from getting sued. That's what it is made for. -Original Message- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Raymond Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 7:11 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Benefits of Flash

Re: [flexcoders] Benefits of Flash Security Model and crossdomain.xml

2006-02-13 Thread Anatole Tartakovsky
to the offender then usual HTTPRequest in mxml (Microsoft XML) parser. - Original Message - From: Eric Raymond To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 9:11 PM Subject: [flexcoders] Benefits of Flash Security Model and crossdomain.xml I must

RE: [flexcoders] Benefits of Flash Security Model and crossdomain.xml

2006-02-13 Thread David Mendels
@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anatole TartakovskySent: Monday, February 13, 2006 9:37 PMTo: flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject: Re: [flexcoders] Benefits of Flash Security Model and crossdomain.xml IMHO. it does not serve security purposes - the only thing

Re: [flexcoders] Benefits of Flash Security Model and crossdomain.xml

2006-02-13 Thread Brian Lesser
Hi Eric, Consider the case where a company has servers protected by a gateway firewall. The servers should not be visible from the public Internet at all - only from within the corporate network. Now someone downloads a Flash movie onto a workstation inside the firewall. If Flash allowed you

Re: [flexcoders] Benefits of Flash Security Model and crossdomain.xml

2006-02-13 Thread Darron J. Schall
Eric Raymond wrote: My main question is who is this model intended to protect? It's for security of LAN data when a user views a .swf from a remote website. See: http://www.martijndevisser.com/blog/article/why-crossdomainxml-is-a-good-thing No crossdomain on internal servers means the

Re: [flexcoders] Benefits of Flash Security Model and crossdomain.xml

2006-02-13 Thread JesterXL
: Monday, February 13, 2006 9:46 PM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Benefits of Flash Security Model and crossdomain.xml Eric Raymond wrote: My main question is who is this model intended to protect? It's for security of LAN data when a user views a .swf from a remote website. See: http