Off topic ... Shockwave and Valentina

[Zav - Alex Zavatone]

On Aug 16, 2004, at 9:25 AM, Ruslan Zasukhin wrote:

> On 8/16/04 5:22 PM, "Zav - Alex Zavatone" <zavpublic at mac.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Aug 16, 2004, at 4:19 AM, Ruslan Zasukhin wrote:
>>
>>> On 8/16/04 2:17 PM, "Chuck Neal" <chuck at mediamacros.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> That is incorrect.  For the Xtra to download correctly you do need a
>>>> SW
>>>> certificate. This prevents unsigned Xtras from installing malicious
>>>> code on
>>>> a user's machine.
>>>
>>> Hi Chuck,
>>>
>>> You sure on this?
>>
>> He's correct.
>
> Ok, may be.
>
> Btw, good news is that Igor just only have told me that he
> Was able run the first V4MD SW safe movie in the Explorer browser!
>
> And he have do that without certificate.
> Probably this works because it have do it locally.

IIRC, when I was on the shockwave engineering team, SW was designed so 
that ALL extras to be auto downloaded required certificates.

It was done for security reasons.  I doubt this has changed.

- Zav
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we.  They never 
stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and 
neither do we." GWB, 080504