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Originally Posted by flipconversion
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You guys are quite naïve if you believe you're steps ahead of the hackers. For crying out loud - hackers managed to reverse engineer a major corporation's tightly sealed prize phone in a matter of days, with their "tiny little brains." You guys are nucking futs if you think anything you do will stop hackers from getting around your protection.
This is not your responsibility, it's apple's - if apple had done a *good* job at using their crappy DRM on iPhone apps, it wouldn't be an issue. Hackers never managed to crack fairplay on apple music files, I think it's rediculous that apple hasn't even responded to the situation.
But damn you all if you think you're smarter than the hackers, there's probably tons of those same hackers here - who are probably a ton smarter and a ton wiser than the vast majority of us. Just because you're pissed at them for cracking your app - which might make you lose a whole 20 or 30 sales, (that's not even a dinner with your family folks) doesn't mean that you bashing them will help any. And it certainly doesn't mean they're not smart. =P
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Based on the number of rebuttals to your post, I think it's obvious who's "naive", but since you quoted me in that post, I'll add my 2 cents.
Read the thread. Then read it again. No one here is suggesting that we will develop the next be-all, end-all App Store DRM solution.
We recognize and acknowledge that the Apple DRM has been defeated and we understand how it is currently being done. Some of us are proposing additional tactics that can be employed at the application level to detect that the running app is cracked and, if so, throwing up some additional road blocks. Forgive us for thinking outside of the box.
If you think it's pointless to make the effort to preserve "20 or 30 sales", then leave your apps under normal Apple DRM control and watch those sales disappear. When you eventually learn what your actual loss to piracy is, you might have a second thought.
