Comm w/external processes in embedded app

[ckoverman]

I am brand new to flash and action script. We are building an embedded device and are considering the flash player to present educational content. I would like to communicate with other processes on the device, by writing to persistent memory for example. It seems that in a web environment, the security infrastructure only allows data exchange between the flash script and the server. But I have read some things that lead me to believe that security is much more lax if you are using only the embedded player. Can anyone shed some light on this subject?

thanks very much