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links for 2009-04-01

• Proxy in PHP for your widgets to talk to the DayPI | Daylife Cookbook
  "Applications written as Java applets, Flash or Javascript widgets often face security issues where they cannot talk to a data source which does not have the same domain name as the one where they get served from."
  (tags: flash webdev xml php)
• Macromedia Flash Extreme: Locking Down Macromedia Flash | Developer Center | Macromedia
  (tags: flash webdev actionscript security)
• jtd.crypto.Hash - AS2, AS3 | James Thompson Digital
  AS2/AS3 static methods for hashing strings with common hash functions within Flash.
  (tags: flash webdev actionscript)
• Washington D.C. Restaurants Become Credit Card Cloning Hot Spots | Threat Level | Wired.com
  "Four former servers at three upscale Washington D.C. restaurants blocks from the White House were arrested last week for allegedly using covert skimming devices to clone customer credit card data, in a year-long counterfeiting operation that's put $750,000 in fraudulent charges on the plastic of Washington's elite." [I would argue that Clyde's of Gallery Place isn't really "elite."]
  (tags: washingtondc restaurant crime via:amzam)