> 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.
the palmIII also has a unique hardware key..
at the moment my application does the same with the Pilot HotSync user
name.. however i perform a simple manipulation to the string to obtain
a registration code.
as for making it harder to people to hack? thats a tricky one. you could
use self-modifying code to perform the detection? and possibly CRC check
your checking code?
cheers.
az.
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