Re: FLASH: DoD Policy: attn. Macromedia Support

[Ben Park]

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.


I think it's just the college being awkward, as I know for a fact that Flash

is installed and running on some of the lecturers machines.


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.

If only you could install it on some other drive....as we have 10mb space

allocated for saving work or whatever, that is our own private space to do

with as we wish....


I don't think Flash is that much of a security issue - somebody wrote just

the other day that flash cannot write to the hard drive - It's just the

college, stopping people from going to good sites that may or may not

contain games : )


Ben


-----Original Message-----

From: Jefferis <

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Date: 03 April 2000 18:50

Subject: Re: FLASH: DoD Policy: attn. Macromedia Support



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On Mon, 3 Apr 2000 10:59:15 EDT, AndrewScratchaol [dot] com wrote:

>

>I am also interested in this answer.  A teacher friend of mine says her

>network administrator for the entire school district will not allow Flash

>plug-ins or access to the media from their system for security reasons as

>well [although Flash is just lumped in with all other active media, not

>singled out.]

>>

>>The network people at the Pentagon strongly contend that Flash player and

>>"Flash" *is* "an Active X Control". I don't exactly know what they mean

>>semantically, but I do know that in practice it means that no Flash files

>>or Flash Players are allowed on the Pentagon Network---period.

>>

>

>Jeff

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