Hi Dirk, is the information (name and emailaddress) send unencrypted? I wouldn't know how to intercept it (and other apps might send sensitive information unencrypted as well) but others might.
I donot expect your servers to go away, but I recently had the very bad experience with some piece of software from Big Robot L.L.C ( www.bigrobotsoftware.com), which still sells it but doesn't answer questions for support any more. The programmers appear to have gone away… and without updates/bugfixes it is useless to me. Greetings, Rolf 2008/11/19 Dirk Stoop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I thought it would be helpful to give everybody who is concerned about > Versions' activation system some insight in the actual design of the > system and our rationale behind developing it. > > … > > When you register Versions, the app contacts our registration server, > which —given you entered a valid license code— returns license data > that's then stored in a file locally on your computer. This license > file is tied to the computer it was registered with, which is the only > way to make pirating the software harder than simply copying this > license file to another machine. (It's stored in "~/Library/ > Application Support/Versions" by the way, the file is named "License", > you can open it up with any text editor to see what's in there). The > only —to humans— usable information that's sent to the registration > server are the contents of the name and email fields from the > registration window. What we can do with that personal information is > strictly limited, for the end-user's protection, in the Versions > license agreement. > > … > > I hope this clears everything up a bit. If you still have concerns or > questions about Versions' online activation, feel free to get back to > me on- or off-list. > > All the best, > -Dirk > > the Versions team > > > -- Rolf Schmolling Historiker [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://rolf_schmolling.macbay.de/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Versions" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/versions?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
