Re: ripping other sources.
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Originally posted by piny
is java secured or can also be ripped?
would be glad to read some comment about this.
piny
java can also be ripped. A perfectly secure technology doesn't exist.
Now, for security, i mean, so that no one steals my scripts, i usually do this:
-you can cut a long script in pieces of reusable code an d put it in functions. This functions are spreaded in several parts of the movie (preferably in several swf movies). That way it's a little harder to understand and back-engineer the whole script. And if you put the functions in several swf, that will mean that one movie with not work by itself, if another movie isn't loaded. As decompilers can work with only one swf at a time, it's harder to understand the script. Know you have to be really carfeull with this, cause you don't want to mess with performance just cause you needed some security.
-this is basic: usually people make script quite easy to read. I usually script in several languages (so i put a variable name in english, another in spanish, another in german) (you have to know those languages though :D). That way you'll understand the script easilly, but others won't unless they speak all those languages. If you only speak english, you can invent words, and make a dictionary, so when you have to read the script again you'll understand what you wrote.
-this one is for confusing. Try to switch name for variables and functions. For example: setname for getname and getname for setname. That means, setname won't set the name, but get it, and so on. For variables, instead of speed name it gravity, and the gravity variable would be named speed. This causes confussion to the one that is reading the script.
Of course i make all those changes to the finished script (the one to be published), but i always keep the original quite readable.
This isn't too secure, i know, but it causes troubles to the ones reading your script. It'll be harder to rip it and get it to work.