Re: Security With Show Package Contents?
Re: Security With Show Package Contents?
- Subject: Re: Security With Show Package Contents?
- From: "Julien Jalon" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:39:13 +0100
New Pages format is the same but zipped.
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Devon Ferns <email@hidden> wrote:
> Have you checked if the new Pages file format is now binary instead of a
> package? That would be my guess. I don't see how you can stop anyone from
> listing a directory structure.
>
> Devon
>
> 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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