Lucas Newman
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2 years ago
in AquaticPrime Warning on toxicsoftware.com
Daniel: I personally am not going to make an changes to AquaticPrime interface at this point. I spend 60 hours a week programming full time for Delicious Monster, so the idea of taking my spare time to fight with crackers and bicker with other developers over the relative [in]security of my framework is not very appealing, to say the least, especially when dealing with an "unsolvable" problem like runtime patching and binary modifications. I made the entire framework open source, so if these changes are trivial, I would be happy to accept a patch from you, which I will roll into the distribution for future versions.
2 years ago
in AquaticPrime Warning on toxicsoftware.com
schwa: It's true, AquaticPrime is not for everyone. Each developer needs to look at what licensing systems are available to them and decide what is best for their application.
2 years ago
in AquaticPrime Warning on toxicsoftware.com
I sent you this message in response to your email, but I will repost it here for others:
This has always been the case, and this "security vulnerability" exists for any and every class and function for any application. I never made the claim that AquaticPrime is uncrackable with regard to binary cracks. In fact, I have specifically mentioned on several mailing lists that this isn't the case at all. What it does do, and what it does very well, is prevent people from creating fake licenses files which can then be distributed as legitimate licenses. If a pirate is going to install an input manager or do a binary modification, you have already lost the sale. AquaticPrime exists solely to prevent the casual piracy that occurs when finding serial numbers and licenses files are trivial.
Discussions such as these have flared up many times on mailing lists such as the Mac Shareware Business group on Yahoo. I suggest you search for "AquaticPrime" and read over these discussions for more information on the topic.
This has always been the case, and this "security vulnerability" exists for any and every class and function for any application. I never made the claim that AquaticPrime is uncrackable with regard to binary cracks. In fact, I have specifically mentioned on several mailing lists that this isn't the case at all. What it does do, and what it does very well, is prevent people from creating fake licenses files which can then be distributed as legitimate licenses. If a pirate is going to install an input manager or do a binary modification, you have already lost the sale. AquaticPrime exists solely to prevent the casual piracy that occurs when finding serial numbers and licenses files are trivial.
Discussions such as these have flared up many times on mailing lists such as the Mac Shareware Business group on Yahoo. I suggest you search for "AquaticPrime" and read over these discussions for more information on the topic.