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Hosseinrostamzadeh
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May 1, 2014
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A "security issue" for property list in library of flash document

  • May 1, 2014
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Please take a look at this screen-shot I have taken from the library in a flash document.

see in the link below, you have to copy and paste it in your browser.

http://askervgs.wikispaces.com/file/view/library.jpg/505738374/library.jpg

As you see the modified dates for all these components are 28 April-2014 and for last component it is 29 April-2014.

What is strange is that the flash document itself is claimed to be created in a local exam: date on 30.April 2014 !!

How is it possible the components in the library are modified two days before the document itself is created?

Dose it mean that the student has had access to these components two days before the actual exam date????

*** All other students flash documents look normal and all dates for anything they have created  i

their flash document library are actual exam date: i.e. 30.April 2014 between 08.00 - 14:00. 

Please help to clarify this issue?

Thanks for any help!

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kglad
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kgladCommunity Expert
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May 1, 2014

if they downloaded the exam (ie, fla) and did the work on their own pc those date/times are their system date/times.  ie, many people have incorrect date/time settings on their computer.

if the test was taken on a school computer, then you need to check the date/times on the school computers and make sure those can't be changed by users before concluding something nefarious took place.

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HosseinrostamzadehAuthor
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May 1, 2014

Thank you for your answer!

They use school laptops, and I will later check the date/time on this person's computer, but something which contradicts the "wrong date" case is that I have received three more files(one open office writer text file) from the same student, all created and modified on 30. April 2014, which was the actual exam date.

So until know it seems that this student has had access to the exam file and prepared the main fla file 2 days prior to the exam date.

This is quite possible because we use previously given  samples in local exams, (digitally available for "some nerds").

But technical question is:

Do the dates listed in flash-library for created components actual dates which match users computer dates/times?


kglad
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kgladCommunity Expert
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May 1, 2014

Do the dates listed in flash-library for created components actual dates which match users computer dates/times?

yes, that's the date/time from the computer system's clock that the object was created.  even if you create a new fla and move a symbol from another fla, that date/time will show when the symbol was created, not when it was moved or when the fla was created.

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