On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Graham Cox <graham....@bigpond.com> wrote: > > On 25/02/2010, at 9:00 AM, Sherm Pendley wrote: > >> I've heard good things about Aquatic Prime: > > > AP is certainly very easy to use, but it's also extremely weak, and has > already been widely cracked, so you might want to take that into account.
It's important to distinguish between the different threat models, of which there are at least three: 1) Sharing of purchased licenses. 2) Generating fake licenses (keygen). 3) Changing the application code to not need a license (crack). AP is very good against #2, does nothing against #1, and is very poor against #3. #2 is a big threat, because banning codes is mostly ineffective against it due to the limitless supply of codes a keygen can provide, codes are easy to share, and easy and safe to use. #3 is, IMO, less significant. Cracks are harder to find and are risky to apply (who knows what kind of evil stuff that crack does?) so many fewer people will use them. You, of course, need to set your own priorities. But saying that AP is "extremely weak" is misleading. It's weak at some things, strong at others, and if its strengths line up with your priorities then it's a fine choice. If they don't line up, then obviously you should look elsewhere. Mike _______________________________________________ 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
