Comments on: Macromedia’s hidden back-door in Flash http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2005/04/macromedias_hid Digital Lifestyle Aggregation - helping to establish open source infrastructure Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:40:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: John Dowdell http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2005/04/macromedias_hid#comment-2101 John Dowdell Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://marc_blogs_it.myelin.co.nz/?p=2106#comment-2101 Yes, recent versions of the Macromedia Flash Player do include an optional auto-update mechanism. You can read about it at the first address, and control it at the second: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flash/articles/mx2004_04.html http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager05.html Calling this an "undocumented backdoor" seems strange. For your "audio" assertion, what, specifically, are you talking about? (It would be better to document and then assert, rather than the other way around, thanks.) John Dowdell Macromedia Support Yes, recent versions of the Macromedia Flash Player do include an optional auto-update mechanism. You can read about it at the first address, and control it at the second:
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flash/articles/mx2004_04.html
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager05.html

Calling this an “undocumented backdoor” seems strange.

For your “audio” assertion, what, specifically, are you talking about?

(It would be better to document and then assert, rather than the other way around, thanks.)

John Dowdell
Macromedia Support

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