Re: Security With Show Package Contents?
Re: Security With Show Package Contents?
- Subject: Re: Security With Show Package Contents?
- From: "I. Savant" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:56:58 -0500
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Jean-Daniel Dupas
<email@hidden> wrote:
> The purpose of code sign is to prevent tempered code to be run inadvertently by an user, not to protect the binary itself.
Agreed - see my retraction that immediately follows the message you
responded to. I misunderstood what I read about the technology months
ago and conceptual error when I read in more detail.
I do admit wondering how OS X prevented merely swapping one
signature for another, which is what prompted me to read the
documentation in greater depth. :-)
> Note that there is a lots of app impossible to crack. We call them freeware
> ;-)
Ah, the old "software should be free" meme. Cute but unrealistic
(and off-topic). Let's not get that religious debate going on
cocoa-dev ...
--
I.S.
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