Re: FLASH: Hack a .swf

[Darren Critchley]

"J. Lutes (pixelTwiddler)" wrote:


> >Looks pretty cool.  So much for not distributing the "source".

>

> I am very interested to see what kind of results people will get from this.

>  After reading the tech notes page regarding this

> (http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/tn4109.html) I don't

> expect much.

>

> I actually bought the SWF Browser (www.swifftools.com) after thinking the

> possibilities would be cool.  Unfortunately there are limitations.  I

> wanted to see authors' techniques, however all I could do was extract sound

> and graphics I will never use.  Thanks to my questions regarding the

> product, there is now a nice link to the tech notes (from Macromedia


The gist of that article is that importing loses alot of information, ie sound

and layering, etc. But you know from using SWF browser that the sound can be

extracted from an SWF, and after going to http://www.openswf.org, I thnk you

can reconstruct most of the flash FLA from the SWF. And I have seen a tool at

Swiffy Tools that will extract individual layers from a SWF.

I think that perhaps Macromedia is bending the truth just a little to keep

people thinking that the contents of their SWF is secure and can't be reverse

engineered.


I wish these people had a demo for us to try, It looks really good on screen,

even if it gives the variable arbitrary names. I just don't like the $49 US

price for it.





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