Re: Core Data Reverse Engineering KickStarter Project
Re: Core Data Reverse Engineering KickStarter Project
- Subject: Re: Core Data Reverse Engineering KickStarter Project
- From: Michael Crawford <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 19:58:52 -0700
OK this is really creepy.
KickStarter has the reasonable requirement that one verify one's
identity. So I entered my first and last name, my real birthday -
which I never post online _anywhere_, so as to avoid identity theft,
and my present home address, which no one at all knows about because
I'm presently couch-surfing.
In less than ten seconds it asked which of four street addresses in
lived at, in Owl's Head, Maine. While I did live in Owl's Head back
in the day, there were very, very few people who knew my street
address. KickStarter also knew the make and model of the car I owned
at the time, as well as the exact name of a business partnership that
I co-owned in the late eighties.
I can see how they might come up with my street address and car from a
credit report, but I don't have the first clue how they identified my
business partnership. We only did one very small consulting gig, and
received just one client paycheck. We did have a bank account, but
that was over twenty years ago. I wouldn't have expected such records
to be kept so long, and to be available so quickly.
Mike
On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 7:53 PM, Michael Crawford <email@hidden> wrote:
> Oopsy-Doodle.
>
> I'll look into what Cocotron and GNUStep have done before actually
> launching my KickStarter Project.
>
> Just about their very first requirement is to state one's funding goal
> and time deadline. I just took a wild guess and specified thirty
> days, and twenty thousand dollars.
>
> That might sound like a really high hourly rate for just one month's
> work, but I would have to work almost 24/7 to pull it off.
>
> Mike
>
> On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 6:52 PM, Charles Srstka
> <email@hidden> wrote:
>> On Jun 22, 2013, at 8:38 PM, Michael Crawford <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Just now I'm about to register a KickStarter project that would
>> compensate me for completely reverse-engineering the Core Data
>> formats.
>>
>>
>> I believe that some of the work on this has been done already; Cocotron and
>> GNUStep both seem to have at least a partial implementation of Core Data. As
>> I stated before, this still makes me hesitant to use it, since even with a
>> reverse engineered version of the framework, you still have the same two
>> problems:
>>
>> 1. You don't know if the reverse engineered framework is 100% complete and
>> covers every single corner case that might arise in a Core Data file, and
>>
>> 2. Since the format isn't published, there's no reason that Apple might make
>> changes to it in the future, including but not limited to features that are
>> technically in the private, internal specification which haven't been
>> implemented yet, but which a reader would still need to be able to deal
>> with.
>>
>> Charles
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Michael David Crawford
> mdcrawford at gmail dot com
>
> Custom Software Development for the iPhone and Mac OS X
> http://www.dulcineatech.com/custom-software-development/
--
Michael David Crawford
mdcrawford at gmail dot com
Custom Software Development for the iPhone and Mac OS X
http://www.dulcineatech.com/custom-software-development/
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