On Wednesday, November 23, 2011 6:26:09 PM UTC, Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Ricardo Amaral > <mas...@ricardoamaral.net> wrote: > > I'm a little confused... If SharedPreferences are not safe for this, how > are > > apps handling validation if they don't use online validation? I'm sure > there > > are a couple who don't use online validation but have some sort of > > validation and they probably use SharedPreferences to control the app > > validation. How come they use it if it's not safe at all? > > Because it is good enough to stop casual piracy. Little will stop a > serious pirate. This is not significantly different than for any other > popular platform in the history of computers -- the only platforms > with no piracy are the platforms nobody uses. > > > Online validation is something I really wanted to avoid. I know that most > > people have an internet connection always on, but when they don't, I > really > > don't want to downgrade my app or prevent them from using it. I'm not > very > > comfortable with such policy. That doesn't leave me with any other > options > > does it? > > You could come up with a business model that does not depend upon > defeating pirates. > It was never my intention to come up with a business model that tries to defeat pirates. That's something I'm not worried about, I didn't even mentioned piracy in any of my posts. That's really not the issue. I'm just trying to understand how secure is SharedPreferences and what alternatives are there, that's all.
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