On Mar 29, 2011, at 13:03, Todd Heberlein wrote: > I thought my Mac Cocoa program was pretty much done, and that all I needed to > do was check off a box in Xcode's packaging or Apple's iTunes Connect web > site saying "I want copy protection".
FWIW, my understanding of the reason it doesn't work that way is this: A standard implementation of the receipt checking code could would permit a single hacking tool to hack away the protection from *every* Mac App Store download. If you implement this yourself, a hacker has to target your application specifically. Chances are, that won't be worth any hacker's time unless your app is incredibly successful. As a consequence, once you have your code working, you should probably try to rearrange it a bit (reorder functions, obfuscate names, etc) to make it less like the sample code you're following along with, so that it's slightly more work for a hacker to crack your application. A hacker who have to spend a couple of hours at it, rather than a couple of minutes, might just not bother, and move on to some other unfortunate target. As I said, FWIW. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
