password protecting a swf: effective or not?

[screeen]

hi.

I've created a password variable w/input text on the first frame of a swf to enable private viewing of a swf; so if you dont know the password you cant procedd to frame 2, to see the whole thing.

Is this effective?

[birnerseff]

Hi,

I will try on windows, one day or the other. I had a look at the linux documents ... and first thing I noticed that on one distro it said superuser, but not on the other.

In any case I tried following the procedure, and got a readable message about something expected but not present on my system

[birnerseff]

Hi,

write yourself a little html page with a link

a href="http://foreignsite.com/movie.swf"

(you can use "view source" on the site to find the swf name), view that html from your hard disk and then right-click the link.to download the swf - that definitely is not hacking ... just using the elements of a website other than the author intended

[Sophie295]

do you encounter with any problems when dealing with swf files on mac?swf editor for mac is a tool that can edit swf files directly.  http://www.swfdecompilerformac.com/swf-editor-for-mac.html