Comments on: New iPhone App DRM Claims to Thwart Pirates

By: Lika

Lika — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:36:40 +0000

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By: Katenka

Katenka — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:32:05 +0000

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By: Ira

Ira — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:40:58 +0000

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By: Herny

Herny — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 04:52:54 +0000

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By: Girona

Girona — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:17:17 +0000

How can I found this information in spanish?

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:40:11 +0000

It’s ironic how guys who crack phone firmware (officially announced as illegal by Apple) screams about pirates and trying to sell they protector.

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Fekls — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:58:09 +0000

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Elka — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 09:20:06 +0000

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By: Dunya

Dunya — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 11:38:29 +0000

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By: Cias

Cias — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 05:58:03 +0000

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By: Ana

Ana — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:21:59 +0000

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By: dewd

dewd — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 02:22:03 +0000

Someone please crack all of these peoples stuff. they are annoying.

By: Paulie

Paulie — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:43:25 +0000

What a joke. Nothing will ever be secure and surely they must realise this.

By: www.p2ptechtime.com

www.p2ptechtime.com — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:47:54 +0000

By: studangerous

studangerous — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 09:15:15 +0000

1. ripDEV are pants… they’re just trying to make a quick buck and will probably make a hash of this as they did with Installer;
2. The appstore is only useful if you want multiple clones of the same app, wi?th these clones generally priced between free to $9.99, and games.. games is the only thing the appstore is really useful for.. if you want real apps you have to jailbreak and go for Cydia due to the Appstore restrictions.
3. the effort to prevent piracy is warranted but the cracking of Appstore applications is just the response to a highly flawed appstore…

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By: iDeveloper

iDeveloper — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 02:45:47 +0000

The real intelligence and challenge is to write an app that is useful and solves a problem, regardless the platform.
Spending your time cracking apps that cost a dollar, takes no more than living with mommy (unemployed losers) and an IQ <= your shoe size.
In the end, developers will still have the IQ and jobs while crackers will still be nothing more than shit sniffing wastes of oxygen living in their mommies basements, using the work of others to steal .99 software.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:30:14 +0000

Red rag to a bull

My vote’s on the bull, every time. Hackers live for the challenge.

I suspect this challenge will be underwhelming for them.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 03:15:05 +0000

what everyone is forgetting is ‘piracy’ was and started as/for a social scene to test peoples skills. Also when you take a CD or an overpriced peice of software froma giant, it effect them little but when you skimp on 15 from a solo idependant developer it really hurts

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:25:16 +0000

Kate is actually cracked already, but like was posted before. Who wants to crack those anyway?

By: 53

53 — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:47:58 +0000

Let’s see how fast we can screw over those hard-working software developers!

By: allan

allan — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:22:04 +0000

if you crack an app that you end up liking, and you don’t consequently pay for it, then you’re shitting on the garage developers out there who are just trying to make some money from doing some hard work.

I see a lot of comments here laughing at overcoming drm, well… laugh where it makes sense, (ie drm on music is bullshit), but do it with apps and you’re gonna kill the developers who are the little guys like you.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:14:17 +0000

“I don’t understand how they manage to disable jailbreaking with every firmware release, but they haven’t done a single thing at all to try and fix their DRM”

Apple doesn’t like DRM. Whether it even works is low on their list of priorities. Extremely low.

How the hell do you expect them to care about “fixing” their DRM when we’re talking about a company that doesn’t even ship their products with copy protection, anyway? You’re surprised? Really?

As to why they try to disable jailbreaking is anyone’s guess, though.

By: Ray

Ray — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:44:47 +0000

I was interested until I saw the part about royalties. Greedy bastards, I ain’t paying royalties! And what’s the guarantee that this won’t be cracked overnight!?

Apple needs to do something about their DRM being cracked ASAP. I don’t understand how they manage to disable jailbreaking with every firmware release, but they haven’t done a single thing at all to try and fix their DRM. Jailbreaking is pretty harmless and doesn’t cost them money but it seems to be top priority for them. While, having their DRM cracked is costing them millions in lost royalties and is losing their developers tons of money too. They need to act fast. Even if it becomes a cat and mouse game and they never have a 100% foolproof solution, they at least need to find a way to disable all pirated copies with each firmware release and then make it harder and hard to crack moving forward. Apple is really dropping the ball on this bigtime!

By: anon

anon — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:26:22 +0000

As @9 said:

If it can be executed, it can be cracked.
There is no “perfect protection”

If it can run, then it can be cracked.

By: John Petricini

John Petricini — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:22:07 +0000

Just curious, out of all the pirated apps, what seems to be the price point of targeted apps? If the apps cost $1 are they really going to be targeted for such a low cost? $3 even? $10 and up I can see being a reasonable target for consumers.

By: AnarchyNow

AnarchyNow — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:06:13 +0000

There’s no working 100% copy-protection for the simple reason that the whole business is to sell the shit which means you have to be able to somehow “copy”/”duplicate” it.
So any wanker can say they got the perfect antipiracy tool, the only perfect one would only allow ONE unduplicable instance, which is 100% useless.
Anyhow, how long til people finally realize there’s not a single reason to be FORCED to pay just for a bunch of electrical 0s and 1s !

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By: confused

confused — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:05:08 +0000

Isnt this site about computer filesharing related things? Who cares about toys???

By: NubCakes

NubCakes — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 03:06:48 +0000

“haha that DRM is going to get owned just like the rest.”

Right… have you been copying PS3 games lately or something?

By: most_Unique

most_Unique — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 02:36:47 +0000

I suck dick for being a cracker. Sorry devs.

By: Anon

Anon — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 02:26:58 +0000

Wouldn’t it be ironic if someone cracked Kali and used it to “protect” their software – for free?

Not saying this is a good idea, just pointing out the potential for humor.

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By: SpookyET

SpookyET — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:07:28 +0000

The reason why Ripdev products, such as Kate, have not been pirated is because no one wants them. Those that do try the trials find them unstable or worthless. They try to fix problems that aren’t there. Installer has also bricked many phones requiring restoration.

By: lol.

lol. — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:57:35 +0000

@19
”
Rockstar North wrote:
December 2nd, 2008 | 18:09 Don’t bother to beat our protection, guys. Think we spent 200k for you to play our game for free? Think twice!

Rockstar Upper East December 2nd, 2008 | 18:24 You really can’t crack this game believe me or not. We have done everything to stop you from playing it for free”

By “stop you from playing it for free” they meant they made it consume ungodly amounts of resources while leaking memory to the point that textures fail to load an hour into the game on a 1gb vram card so that you completely lose the desire to play, cracked or legitimate.

By: lol.

lol. — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:48:44 +0000

CSS: CHECK!
AACS: CHECK!
BDRM: CHECK!
BD+: CHECK!
FairPlay: CHECK!
Windows Media: CHECK!
SafeDisc: CHECK!
Starforce: CHECK!
Tages: CHECK!
SecuRom: CHECK!
Sony-BMG Rootkit: CHECK!

Kali Anti-Piracy: initializing…

ect ect ect

By: JT

JT — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:45:09 +0000

oh yeah, why not also do a search for the grand trashing of phones kate is known for as well.

By: JT

JT — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:42:56 +0000

““he company adds that it has been protecting its own software (such as Kate, i2Reader Pro, iPref and Installer) with it for months and no-one has yet cracked any of them.”

But who would want to crack those. Honestly.”

Exactly. These are the people who can’t even compete with cydia and both cydia and installer are free. If you’ve used the latest version of installer, it seems like it’s programmed by a 10 year old. These peeps can’t even load the images in to allow a smooth scrolling list! Yeah, I say let them maybe get a client or three then just crazck the shite out of everything they release.

By: Dotter

Dotter — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:27:04 +0000

boycot?

By: tekz

tekz — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:08:33 +0000

“he company adds that it has been protecting its own software (such as Kate, i2Reader Pro, iPref and Installer) with it for months and no-one has yet cracked any of them.”

But who would want to crack those. Honestly.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:54:54 +0000

“If they sell their app for $9.99 or less it’s $100. Over $9.99 and it goes up to $300. Ripdev are also taking additional ‘royalties’ for each copy protected with Kali”

Ah, so Ripdev convinces iPhone developers they need Kali, and then sucks their blood like a parasite through fees and royalties.

Well, if it’s good enough for the MAFIAA…

@Roze
“It is “Digital Restrictions Management,” not “Digital Rights Management.””

I think “Digital Rights Suppression” would be the most accurate.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:48:36 +0000

a blatent challenge will be dispensed with, wasnt BluRay encryption supposed to last 4 years, and was hacked in 4 days?

By: Rekrul

Rekrul — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:10:57 +0000

When a cracker wants to crack DRM, they have a known condition they can test against; Does it work?

When a company wants to create new DRM, they’re working against completely theoretical conditions; How will they try and crack this? What tools will they use? Etc.

It’s always easier to deal with the known than the unknown.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:30:56 +0000

Bugger the iphone. id rather go out and get googles android phone, all the apps on that are free to begin with. i wonder how they still exist?

By: Shizzle

Shizzle — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:23:05 +0000

Kate, i2Reader Pro, iPref and Installer are all cracked. PWNED

By: dfx

dfx — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:40:35 +0000

someone go hack ripdev’s site already, I think they earned it for selling out.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:23:45 +0000

Haha who even wants an iphone. Thats a posers phone.

My phone has a cracked screen and i melted some of the side buttons when i was bored — And it does me just fine :D

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By: meh

meh — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:32:36 +0000

somethins not right here.. they couldnt be that stupid to challenge them.. i mean if there scam is the take money from devolepers.. you would think they would try to slip it under the table and mabye the crackers wont really get around to it since nobody gives a shit..

but now.. there going to do it in spite of them.. just to make all there effort and money wasted.

By: Norway FTW!

Norway FTW! — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:20:12 +0000

“According to Ripdev, the Kali system is a server-side service which can take any App Store application and place it inside another protection wrapper which, Ripdev claim, will prevent it from being pirated.”
That’s nothing new. Plenty of games has had server-side authentication, and the only thing the cracker has to do is remove the homephoning bit of code. Or just emulate the homephoning.

Bandit / 20:
Cracking is removing some of the code to make it work. Hacking is adding code to emulate.

Please check your facts.