Security report for flashpointarchive.org
BlueMaxima · Technology · N/a
Flashpoint Archive is a well-established non-profit community project focused on preserving web games and animations, particularly those created with Flash and other legacy web technologies. Founded in 2017 by BlueMaxima, it has grown into a significant digital preservation effort with a large collection and active community contributors. The project provides open-source software tools to facilitate access and playback of archived content, emphasizing accessibility and preservation of internet culture. Technically, the website employs standard modern web technologies including HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript, with hosting and DNS services provided by Cloudflare. The site is mobile-optimized and features good SEO practices, though accessibility features are basic. The absence of analytics and tracking scripts suggests a privacy-conscious approach. However, the site lacks some advanced security headers and DNSSEC is not enabled, indicating room for improvement in security hardening. From a security perspective, the site benefits from HTTPS and domain transfer protection, but does not publish formal security policies, incident response contacts, or vulnerability disclosure information. No privacy or cookie policies are present, which may impact compliance with GDPR and other privacy regulations. The domain registration is privacy protected, which is justified for this type of community project, though the domain age is relatively recent compared to the project's founding date. Overall, the website is trustworthy, professional, and focused on its mission of digital preservation. Strategic recommendations include implementing privacy and cookie policies with consent mechanisms, enhancing security headers and DNSSEC, and publishing security and incident response information to improve compliance and trust.
Scanned
NIS2 and GDPR posture
- NIS2 posture
- 2/ 100
- GDPR posture
- 35/ 100
- Checks completed
- 7of 7
Indicative only: based on publicly visible signals, not a certification or legal assessment. NIS2 signals relate to Article 21 of Directive (EU) 2022/2555; GDPR signals to Articles 7, 12, 13 and 32 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive.
Priority findings
13 findings rated critical or high. Fix these first.
Security headers
Security headers are instructions your web server sends to every visitor’s browser. Missing ones leave visitors more exposed to attacks such as clickjacking and injected scripts.
- High
Missing Strict-Transport-Security header
Forces HTTPS connections
What to do: Add "Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload"
- High
Missing X-Frame-Options header
Prevents clickjacking attacks
What to do: Add "X-Frame-Options: DENY" or "X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN"
- High
Missing Content-Security-Policy header
Controls resources the browser is allowed to load
What to do: Implement a Content-Security-Policy appropriate for your application
- High
GDPR compliance
These are the privacy signals visitors and data protection authorities look for under GDPR.
- High
No Privacy Policy found
GDPR requires a clear and accessible privacy policy
What to do: Add a comprehensive privacy policy page and link to it prominently
- High
No Cookie Policy found
GDPR requires clear information about cookie usage
What to do: Add a dedicated cookie policy explaining cookie usage and purposes
- High
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Results by check
Each check with its score, findings and the evidence it collected.
Technical appendix
Business context, site observations and technical notes gathered during the scan, and the standards behind each reference.
Business context
Business profile
Security posture
Recommendations
- Implement and publish a comprehensive privacy policy and cookie policy with user consent mechanisms to improve GDPR compliance.
- Enable DNSSEC on the domain to enhance DNS security and prevent spoofing.
- Add security headers such as Content-Security-Policy, X-Frame-Options, and Strict-Transport-Security to harden the website against common attacks.
- Publish a security policy and incident response contact information to improve transparency and readiness.
- Consider establishing a vulnerability disclosure program or security.txt file to facilitate responsible reporting of security issues.
Site observations
Automated reading of the public site. Ratings are indicative.
Business
- Company
- BlueMaxima
- Description
- Flashpoint Archive is a community-driven non-profit project dedicated to preserving games and animations from the web, focusing on Flash, Shockwave, HTML5, Unity, and other web technologies. It provides a software package including a launcher, proxy, and sandbox for reliable playback of preserved content.
- Key services
- Preservation of web games and animations, Open-source software tools for content playback, Community-driven archival and content requests
- Content quality
- good
- Branding
- consistent
Technology
- Stack
- HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, YouTube iframe embed
- Performance
- moderate
- Mobile
- good
- Accessibility
- basic
- SEO
- good
Security
- Observed score
- 70/100
- Good practices seen
- HTTPS enabled
- Domain status clientTransferProhibited
Analytics and tracking
- Tracking level
- minimal
- Privacy compliance
- poor
Advertising
- Transparency
- poor
Site quality
- Design
- good
- User experience
- good
- Content relevance
- excellent
- Navigation
- good
- Professionalism
- good
- Trustworthiness
- high
Key observations
- Website is fully accessible with no blocking or WAF challenges.
- No explicit privacy, cookie, or terms of service policies found on the homepage.
- Contact information is only via a contact page link; no direct emails or phone numbers visible.
- The site uses Cloudflare DNS and hosting services.
- No analytics or tracking scripts detected in the provided HTML.
- Content is focused on preservation of web games and animations, with a strong community and open-source ethos.
- No advertising or monetization scripts detected.
- No security policy or incident response information published.
- No vulnerability disclosure or security.txt found.
Technical notes
Notes
Standards and sources
Reference chips under each finding point to the standard, regulation or specification the finding relates to. They are resolved at build time from the official datasets below and mapped conservatively: a finding with no defensible link shows none. NIS2 and GDPR references mark where a finding is relevant evidence, not a compliance verdict. Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2690 binds digital infrastructure and digital service providers; for other entities it is the most detailed public reading of the Article 21 measures.
- MITRE CWE (opens in a new tab)4.20 (2026-04-30) · CWE Terms of Use (free use with attribution, © MITRE)
- OWASP Top 10:2025 (opens in a new tab)2025 (membership per CWE 4.20) · CC BY-SA 4.0
- MITRE CAPEC (opens in a new tab)3.9 (2023-01-24) · CAPEC Terms of Use (free use with attribution, © MITRE)
- OWASP ASVS (opens in a new tab)5.0.0 · CC BY-SA 4.0
- OWASP Web Security Testing Guide (opens in a new tab)latest (checklist.json, master) · CC BY-SA 4.0
- OWASP Secure Headers Project (opens in a new tab)2026-10-18 · Apache-2.0
- Mozilla Server Side TLS (intermediate) (opens in a new tab)6.0 · MPL-2.0
- NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 (OSCAL catalog) (opens in a new tab)5.2.0 · Public domain (US Government work)
- Directive (EU) 2022/2555 (NIS2) (opens in a new tab)OJ L 333, 27.12.2022 · EUR-Lex reuse under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU (© European Union)
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2690 (opens in a new tab)OJ L, 18.10.2024 · EUR-Lex reuse under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU (© European Union)
- Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR) (opens in a new tab)OJ L 119, 4.5.2016 · EUR-Lex reuse under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU (© European Union)
- Directive 2002/58/EC (ePrivacy), consolidated (opens in a new tab)19.12.2009 · EUR-Lex reuse under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU (© European Union)
- RFC Editor metadata (opens in a new tab)per-RFC (obsolete RFCs rejected) · IETF Trust Legal Provisions (metadata only)
- NIST CSRC, W3C TR and IETF Datatracker (opens in a new tab)per document · Titles and links only
- NIST NVD CVE API 2.0 (opens in a new tab)live records · Public domain (NVD); CVE® records © MITRE, free use
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