Understanding the security changes in Flash Player 10

Note: The following article is for developers only. Customers who are experiencing Adobe Flash Player installation issues should begin troubleshooting in the Flash Player Support Center.

Adobe Flash Player 10 offers a variety of new features and enhancements as well as some changes to the previous behavior of Flash Player. Some of these changes may require existing content to be updated to comply with stricter security rules. Other changes introduce new abilities that were previously unavailable or restricted by security rules.

Please review the following security-related changes made in Flash Player 10. Use this list to determine whether you will need to make changes to your existing content for it to function correctly in this Flash Player release.

Changes that may require action:

• Policy file strictness: Phase 2
• Socket connection timeout
• Upload and download require user interaction
• Setting data on the system Clipboard requires user interaction
• Content-Disposition header may prevent SWF files from playing
• Related-object properties in events may not be available
• POSTs containing file uploads require upload security checks
• Camera and microphone unavailable in certain WMODEs

New security-related features that are available:

• Local save and load
• Limited full-screen keyboard input
• Peer-to-peer communication via RTMFP
• Data can be read from the Clipboard inside a paste event handler

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