On 4/26/99, Aaron Ardiri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> the question is.. what can be done about it? and how can
> we find out who is making this software available?
As Ben Rampling pointed out, in most cases you could shut them down by
contacting the web service that hosts their site because they probably
violate their hosts' policies. But judging by the hit counters on those
sites, I would guess that you would only succeed in driving them underground
more. The best case scenario would be to discourage the people who update
those sites enough that they are forced to host the sites on their home
computer and communicate through IRC and word of mouth instead of publishing
a website on someone else's server.
Although I doubt that it's possible to make a crack-proof app for the
PalmPilot, I'm interested in discussing techniques that developers could use
to make apps more difficult to crack.
Our app asks for a simple 5-digit unlock key based on the user's RegCode (or
Pilot User Name). What kinds of things could we do to discourage most
(PalmPilot) hackers? The only thing I could think of so far is to somehow
use some modulo of the prc's checksum in a jump statement in your code, but
that would be hard to do and inconvenient when you release an upgrade.
-Jason
