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Explanation of Cross Domain and Client Access Policy files for Silverlight

Submitted by Ben Hodson on Wed, 06/30/2010 - 11:59

Taking some of the good ideas from Adobe Flash in regards to security policy, Silverlight has implemented a similar security model to block unauthorized cross domain network calls. This plugs a potential security hole where a malicious Silverlight application could run on a page the user is viewing and make API and network calls to domains that the user is not on without his or her knowledge.