Hi, Burak's Actionscript Viewer includes Flash 9/AS3 decompiling support. I have only used it a few times (I'm stuck in the AS2 world still), but it seems to work decently.
-David R On Feb 12, 2008 11:43 AM, Nate Kidwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi- > > I just started work on an open-source flash decompiler. It is a Flex/AIR > project to make life easy for everybody in the flash community who might not > know any other languages. Deals with files that are either online or stored > on your computer. You can find it at: > > http://code.google.com/p/flash-decompiler/ > > The source code is on subversion & under LGPL. So feel free to use it for > whatever you want. > > Sounds like a mean thing for intellectual property, but is a necessary > evil. I feel that as great as Adobe is, the lack of decompilers/obfuscators > leads to some bad things: > > 1) Some people still viewing Flash/Flex/Actionscript/AIR/SWF as corporate > property, rather than a somewhat-open-standard like Java. > > 2) Some people who are early adopters not being protected. Those who > created great programs like Picnik & Buzzword might have their source code > available for the world to see & copy. True, the Buzzword folks wound up > set for life, and Picnik has many partnerships, but the other companies > making Flex apps might wind up left in the cold. > > 3) Some people assuming SWFs are undecompilable. This is a dangerous > assumption. People map out their entire corporate strategy assuming that > their code is unreadable by their competitors. This is not the truth and by > bringing these things to light, we are doing the Flex/Flash/AIR community a > big favor by letting them know where they stand. > > 4) People coming up with band-aid solutions such as > swf-over-encrypted-socket which are still praying that the obfuscators are > going to get here before the decompilers do (not going to happen, imho). > > There's a big hubbub about AIR 1.0 being released in a month. Adoption > will ramp up even further at that point. But unfortunately, all the > obfuscator vendors have been 2 months away from AS3 support for the past 2 > years. So all the new apps we'll see will be equally readable. > > It's time we did something about this. The sooner we have an open source > AS3 decompiler, the sooner we have an obfuscator. And that's really what we > need. > > Nate Kidwell > http://ludicast.com > > _______________________________________________ > osflash mailing list > [email protected] > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > >
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