[devtalk] Adobe Air - is it safe?
joseph-harris
Joseph-Harris at topmail.co.uk
Fri Aug 28 13:06:47 BST 2009
Thaks Dave.
I'd obviously not come across Air before. I've also now had a discussion with the application supplier, and that has given me as much trust as the digital world affords ;-).
The positive is that one adds only the applications one chooses. The Adobe site is very light on explanation of Air, and I learnt much more of the basics from search and from the supplier! He, incidentally, said much the same as you and Matt have.
Joseph
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From: "David Precious"
> On Wednesday 26 August 2009 17:58:53 joseph-harris wrote:
>> Thanks for that Matt. I have no doubt of its value in development and from
>> a website point of view. But, for a user, how dangerous is the access to
>> local files?
>>
>> Who controls that access and how?
>
> Well, it's as dangerous as installing a random normal application. If you
> download & install some freeware utility, it can access all the files that the
> user it's been executed as has access to; same with Adobe Air, as far as I
> know.
>
> The same safe computing practices as normal apply - don't run software from
> sources you don't trust.
>
> Cheers
>
> Dave P
>
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