RE: FLASH: Re: Reply to all: URGENT Active X question

[David Jacobs]

Andrew,


The issue is the potential security risks of running ActiveX. An ActiveX

control is an application, and has the capability of introducing security

holes. Obviously this is not a negotiable matter for the Pentagon.


IE runs Flash as an ActiveX control. Distributing the player to them via

their intranet will not change this. Their browsers will not run it. Period.



If there is indeed a Netscape standard there, then the whole issue is moot.

As far as I know, there are no security risks associated with running the

plugin, and I doubt they have a policy against this. (Though it may have to

be distributed internally. I seriously doubt they allow users to install

plugins at their own discretion!) There may have been  a misunderstanding or

ignorance on someone's part (from the government--who'd of thought?! ; ),

but I'm sure you can get this cleared up.


I doubt they consider the swf format a security risk in itself.


David Jacobs

Web Developer

Skywalker Communications

http://www.skywalker.com

http://www.itverge.com


Phone: 636.272.8025 x167


> -----Original Message-----

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From: AndrewScratchaol [dot] com [SMTP:AndrewScratchaol [dot] com]

> Sent:	Friday, March 31, 2000 6:36 PM

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To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

> Subject:	FLASH: Re: Reply to all: URGENT Active X question

> 

> John, Cheri and Len (and all else who may respond to the thread),

> 

> Thanks for the advice. I'm going to try to provide the Flash player via

> the 

> free licensing to those folks @ the Pentagon who are security bound. This 

> dialog may also enlighten the network gurus there that the SWF format is

> not 

> a security problem in and of itself. It's funny because those folks (at

> the 

> Pentagon) only have Netscape 3 or 4.01 on their machines (by government 

> decree), yet the prejudice was made against Flash based on the

> charateristics 

> of IE. 

> 

> Hey, are there any commercial jobs out there for a struggling artist?  :)

> 

> Andrew

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