Kristian Andersen
Advisor & Founder
Kristian Andersen is the Founder of Kristian Andersen + Associates.
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We are proud to say that Bilal, one of our favorite founders, is about to demo his new company at SF New Tech.
Bilal is the Founder & CEO @mytweetmark, which includes both the www.mytweetmark.com and www.homecook.me websites.
He’ll be presenting at SF New Tech on 9/15/10.
Our new series Founders Stories just launched, and here is Steve Hoffman, Publisher of Founders Space, interviewing David Hu, the CEO of Special Fork.
QUESTION:
I’m changing from a partnership to an LLC, do I need to get a new tax ID? If so, I’d need to get new bank accounts and everything. It’s a big hassle.
ANSWER:
For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been looking into how to protect Flash & Flex files. Most Flash & Flex files can be decompiled, revealing the source code to anyone who makes the effort to do so. Unfortunately, it doesn’t require a great deal of effort to download one of the many decompilers available online and rip off someone else’s hard work.
I did a lot of research looking for a solution, and most of the SWF protection packages out there don’t actually deliver what they promise. They are simply too easy to outsmart. However, after scouring many technical forums and developer sites, I found that a large number of developers are using secureSWF.
Kindisoft’s secureSWF provides obfuscation, code protection, and SWF encryption techniques to prevent Flash decompilers from generating anything useful from the SWF, SWC, or AIR files.
For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been looking into how to protect Flash & Flex files. Most Flash & Flex files can be decompiled, revealing the source code to anyone who makes the effort to do so. Unfortunately, it doesn’t require a great deal of effort to download one of the many decompilers available online and rip off someone else’s hard work.
I did a lot of research looking for a solution, and most of the SWF protection packages out there don’t actually deliver what they promise. They are simply too easy to outsmart. However, after scouring many technical forums and developer sites, I found that a large number of developers are using secureSWF.
Kindisoft’s secureSWF provides obfuscation, code protection, and SWF encryption techniques to prevent Flash decompilers from generating anything useful from the SWF, SWC, or AIR files.
Most Flash & Flex files can be decompiled, revealing the source code to anyone who makes the effort to do so. Unfortunately, it doesn’t require a great deal of effort to download one of the many decompilers available online and rip off someone else’s hard work.
I did a lot of research looking for a solution, and most of the SWF protection packages out there don’t actually deliver what they promise. They are simply too easy to outsmart. However, after scouring many technical forums and developer sites, I found that a large number of developers are using irrFuscator.
Ambiera’s irrFuscator obfuscates the Actionscript 3 bytecode in Flash and Flex SWF files so that decompilers won’t be able to extract your function, variable and constant names anymore. irrFuscator can read in a directory of .as and .mxml files, process them and put them out into a target directory. Simply recompile the directory with the obfuscated files and your .swf files are a lot safer.
Most Flash & Flex files can be decompiled, revealing the source code to anyone who makes the effort to do so. Unfortunately, it doesn’t require a great deal of effort to download one of the many decompilers available online and rip off someone else’s hard work.
I did a lot of research looking for a solution, and most of the SWF protection packages out there don’t actually deliver what they promise. They are simply too easy to outsmart. However, after scouring many technical forums and developer sites, I found that a large number of developers are using irrFuscator.
Ambiera’s irrFuscator obfuscates the Actionscript 3 bytecode in Flash and Flex SWF files so that decompilers won’t be able to extract your function, variable and constant names anymore. irrFuscator can read in a directory of .as and .mxml files, process them and put them out into a target directory. Simply recompile the directory with the obfuscated files and your .swf files are a lot safer.
Joe Wallin
Advisor
Alan Toman
by Alan Toman, author of The WOOF Factor
During the months of June and July I began a quest to gain perspective on what has been happening in business & technology today. During that time I had conversations with over one hundred senior executives, managers, engineers, designers and developers spanning the industries of the Internet, mobile, marketing, advertising, entertainment, recruiting, e-commerce, education, energy, finance, IT, nonprofit, public relations, software, venture capital and health care.
