How to Hack a SWC file

After the firestorm of web traffic we got from the previous post on How to Hack an AIR App SWF, I thought I’d pass this link on to our readers. David Wolever has done a bit of SWC file hacking to modify a private method to make it protected.

Even though this hack is an extremely useful and a very “white-hat” endeavor, it does highlight what’s possible when working with open file formats and virtual runtime environments like the Flash Player.

Overriding private methods in ActionScript, the hard way