[thelist] FW: [websandiego] So, Flash has access to a list of my fonts?

Joel D Canfield joel at spinhead.com
Mon Nov 17 08:25:09 CST 2003


>From the WebSanDiego list:

> http://www.stcassociates.com/lab/fontbrowser.html
> 
> I had no idea. Not sure I like that, actually.
> 
> This worked in Safari/Mac for me.
> 
> 	Joe
> --
> Joe "ArtLung" Crawford   San Diego California US
> http://joecrawford.com   http://artlung.com/blog
> http://websandiego.org   http://sandiegoblog.com
>        aol im: artlung   aim:goim?screenname=artlung

Interesting, but a bit worrisome. If Flash can read from a system
folder, how is proper security enforced?

joel


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