Archive for the ‘Software Piracy’ Category

The Power of Information…

As we all know, there are may ways to conduct business in the Software Industry.  We have been very fortunate to meet, discuss and share ideas regarding approaches to not just development and marketing – but also the business side of how to grow and maintain a revenue stream.  It is amazing how often discussions regarding licensing [...]

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How to Hack an AIR App SWF

Disclaimer – Simplified Logic respects intellectual property rights and in no way supports using hacked or cracked software. What follows is simply an educational exercise with the intent of highlighting the security dangers of releasing unprotected software in virtual machine environments such as the Adobe Flash Player.
It’s fairly common for me to see comments [...]

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Simplified Logic / Flex Meetup Recording

The Online Flex Meetup Group is Organized by John Mason out of Atlanta, GA. His group attracts attendees from all over the USA and the World. We received an Invitation to present to this group on June 10, 2009. The event was recorded and also covered some material that was also presented [...]

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Getting Started with Nitro-LM ‘FREE’

The Nitro-LM licensing system is very feature packed. For a new user, it can sometimes be a little bit daunting to get set up and running. I’ve put together a screencast showing some common tasks to complete when getting started in the Nitro-LM system. If you haven’t yet signed up for a [...]

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DRM and the Flash Platform

I recently had an opportunity to present Nitro-LM to the Atlanta flash user group on the topic of DRM and the Flash Platform. The slides are attached (you’ll have to rotate them in Adobe Reader, for some reason, sliderocket didn’t print them out right-side up) along with the recording of the webex meeting.

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Here’s your “Perpetual” License…

So this is one of the more interesting problems that Software Development Companies are faced with. While this should be obvious to anyone in business, it is amazing how few pay attention to it. Imaging how difficult it is to predict your revenue stream when you have customers that are NOT REQUIRED to [...]

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Throwing in the Towel!

We never thought we would ever see this in a licensed commercial software product, but here it is…

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Encryption Flex Modules with Nitro-LM – 2

In part two, we cover using the Asset Encrypter to encrypt AIR module swfs. This demo also contains a before and after look at the code using a decompiler.
>>> VIEW HERE <<<

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Prevent DLL Tampering on Windows Apps

Modifying or replacing a DLL is one way that a hacker can gain access to your protected application. If you’re using the Nitro-LM solution with the DLL client, or even if you’re only interested in protecting your own DLLs, the solution provided here should prove useful to you. For our purposes, we’ll focus on how [...]

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Stealing Code – Doug McCune Nails It!

Doug McCune, world renowned expert on Adobe Flex/AIR and recently published Author, recently put on a presentation in England regarding decompiling SWFs. He covered many of the free and commercial applications used for both compiling and decompiling SWFs, and also the benefits/issues with obfuscation and encryption.

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