Re: FLASH: A bug in flash 4

[Nigel Randsley-Pena]

Flashers,


Adding to Brad's comment on this matter I would like to stress the

following :

I advised Macromedia on the bug during a weekend from a different

timezone. Macromedia's response, even though it was the weekend and my

hours are quite different, was very quick and from feedback I have

received from the team I can only praise the way it has been dealt with.

Any professional developer on this list will understand why I did not

release information on this subject in this public forum, but now that

'the cat is out of the bag' I think we should all commit towards damage

control. The 'bug' allows a site to capture, under certain

circumstances, the email of it's visitors, this is something that any

respectable site would not do but it is something that a lot of sites

would like to do. It might be reasonable to expect some possible

backlash from media coverage on this that might influence the acceptance

of Flash but with some luck the media will be showing more interest in

the latest Microsoft security fiasco (

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_437000/437967.stm )

than in an exploit related to a plugin.


Nigel


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