# Password Problem

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/password-problem/29469>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [August 27, 2003, 6:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/password-problem/29469 "2003-08-27T06:23:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![grandsp5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@grandsp5](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/grandsp5)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 6:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/password-problem/29469/1 "2003-08-27T06:23:18Z")

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If I program a password field in flash using the tutorial on this site, would it be possible to obtain the password by sticking the swf into a decompiler? It seems like it would.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 6:51am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/password-problem/29469/2 "2003-08-27T06:51:58Z")

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Well I pretty sure it is! I don’t know much about decompilers but I know that these password are very unsecure!  
I would use php via mysql!

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 7:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/password-problem/29469/3 "2003-08-27T07:03:21Z")

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yeah. now to learn php and mySQL.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 9:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/password-problem/29469/4 "2003-08-27T09:28:50Z")

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does anyone know if flash can access files (ie textfiles) secured by an .htaccess file ?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 2:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/password-problem/29469/5 "2003-08-27T14:01:24Z")

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I don’t know if this was the tutorial you were talking about:  
[http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/authentication.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/authentication.htm)

but it uses PHP and MySQL. If you have just an input field and the password in Flash, then yes, a decompiler can rip out the actionscripts.