06Aug The Evils of Flash Decompiling

There is nothing worse than spending time and resourcing building a project only to have someone else come-along and steal your hard work away from you. There exists Flash file decryptors that can almost tear-apart a SWF to its raw elements. The ethical purpose of these costly tools would be for having to change a SWF that the source may have been deleted or lost. However, as we all know, people will abuse tools far beyond their ethical usefulness. However all is not lost, and there exists tools to help prevent decompiling:

http://www.amayeta.com/software/swfencrypt/
More information on Flash protection: http://flashrights.com/index.htm

Author: Jonathan Dunlap Jonathan is an experienced software engineer, sole blogger of JADBOX, author of FlashMVC, humanitarian, and has contracted work for Microsoft, Coke, and Disney.