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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	[quote] [b]poi said:[/b] So yes! There's definitely a future for those making things fly AIR and the likes seem powerful but last time I heard the security was not exactly their main concern, e.g: I've been told file access was not restricted to some sort of sandbox and did not require user interaction. That may be a deliberate attempt to turn "webApps" into "native" apps but I find the possibilities a bit worrying. Doing evil with that is way too easy. That may also not be true, or true anymore [/quote] I'm not sure I follow you. How can a local flash/ajax/html/js application pose greater security risks than those already on the web or local apps in general? For one thing, a local app normally doesn't propagate itself or duplicate itself - which is the raison d'etre for a virus or trojan. Also, the ways flash or javascript can interact with the operating system and local files are very limited, no?. Writing a local app which could format a hard drive or erase files is much easier to do in C++ or VB or VBA etc. So why would web technologies, which don't have the same kind of API support that most programming languages for the desktop benefit from, be more of a security risk. What am I missing? I mean I could write and send someone a batch file that echoes yes to format c - all within a few bytes of code.....now that's scary. :) On the other side of the coin, here are the security risks raised (but again, local or web, what difference?) http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/AIR:HTML_Security_FAQ#What_kind_of_security_threats_are_we_talking_about.3F Nature & Travel Photography [url=http://www.sleepingwolves.com]Main Entrance[/url] [small](Edited by [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/user/6261]SleepingWolf[/url] on 01-12-2008 18:05)[/small] Loading...
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