Re: Security With Show Package Contents?
Re: Security With Show Package Contents?
- Subject: Re: Security With Show Package Contents?
- From: Joseph Crawford <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:27:10 -0500
AFAIK that would be impossible because someone would just find away
around the protection. There has to be a way to unprotect the app
otherwise the file system would not be able to access the binary
file. If the file system has a way to access it, someone will figure
that out and then they will be able to access it.
Trying to make an app un-crackable is not worth the time or effort, if
it was feasible they would be doing it with OS's like OS X and Windows
and even the big guys like Adobe.
Joseph Crawford
On Jan 12, 2009, at 10:18 AM, Chunk 1978 wrote:
so i was a little put off after purchasing iWork '09, because i could
no longer access "Show Package Contents" of my pages files. i
generally used this to swap out images of the same size, or to color
balance, etc.
anyway, i started thinking about security of applications based on
showing package contents. as far as i know the only way for someone
to crack an application is to have access to the package contents
which lists the Unix Executable File in the Mac OS folder. i guess
there's also the possibility to swap out frameworks (particularly
Aquatic Prime framework if the framework is installed instead of the
Aquatic Prime library)... since apps are really just folders with a
.app extension, wouldn't it be possible to disable "Show Package
Contents", as with the new .pages files, so that it would make the app
more secure (if not impossible to crack)? couldn't Apple implement
some sort of password protection or optional block on viewing package
contents with XCode so that apps are impossible to crack?
this post is totally just me thinking out loud. i personally believe
that if someone is going to download a cracked version of an app then
either they wouldn't have bought a license anyway, or they don't have
the money... i'm not trying to make an app of mine more secure. but
i'd like to hear your thoughts about this.
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