Re: how to hack my own apps

2008-04-06 Thread Jens Alfke
On 6 Apr '08, at 8:18 AM, alex wrote: Just to add to this discussion- in _most_ cases ANY piece of code that is loaded into RAM can be _easily_ reversed. I think there are like two exceptions to that! O'Reilly's "Secure Programming Cookbook" has a chapter on making code resistant to cr

Re: how to hack my own apps

2008-04-06 Thread alex
Just to add to this discussion- in _most_ cases ANY piece of code that is loaded into RAM can be _easily_ reversed. I think there are like two exceptions to that! I used to do this sort of thing on paper with colored pencils but now you can use a tool like IDA Pro (which rocks by the way)

Re: how to hack my own apps

2008-04-03 Thread glenn andreas
On Apr 3, 2008, at 3:17 PM, Nick Zitzmann wrote: On Apr 3, 2008, at 3:06 PM, justin webster wrote: just wondering how easy it is for would-be hackers to get inside my code. It depends. For 32-bit apps, it's trivial for someone to inject code using an input manager or something. For 64-bi

Re: how to hack my own apps

2008-04-03 Thread Rob Napier
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 5:06 PM, justin webster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > just wondering how easy it is for would-be hackers to get inside my code. > how meaningful and human-readable is a reverse engineered version of my > app? > is there a particular tool a hacker would use for Mac apps? > > a

Re: how to hack my own apps

2008-04-03 Thread John Stiles
I'm not a hacker, but if I had to figure out how a Cocoa app worked in a hurry, I'd check out F-Script Anywhere. justin webster wrote: just wondering how easy it is for would-be hackers to get inside my code. how meaningful and human-readable is a reverse engineered version of my app? is the

Re: how to hack my own apps

2008-04-03 Thread Nick Zitzmann
On Apr 3, 2008, at 3:06 PM, justin webster wrote: just wondering how easy it is for would-be hackers to get inside my code. It depends. For 32-bit apps, it's trivial for someone to inject code using an input manager or something. For 64-bit apps, I don't think that's been done yet, but it

how to hack my own apps

2008-04-03 Thread justin webster
just wondering how easy it is for would-be hackers to get inside my code. how meaningful and human-readable is a reverse engineered version of my app? is there a particular tool a hacker would use for Mac apps? any help much appreciated, justin ___