# Private Class Not So Private?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/private-class-not-so-private/208203>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [November 26, 2006, 10:06am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/private-class-not-so-private/208203 "2006-11-26T10:06:40Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 26, 2006, 10:06am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/private-class-not-so-private/208203/1 "2006-11-26T10:06:40Z")

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Okay so you’ve got your private vars in your AS2 Class, you think they’re all safe right? Wrong.

Doing a trace(MyClass.myvar); will spit out an error that the var is private and you can’t touch it.

But a trace(MyClass[“myvar”]); will work perfectly fine. You can use it normal, without any setters getters outside the class.

Is there a way to protect against this? I think this is a huge security flaw. I know it’s simple OOP, but a private var in an object should have rules.