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The Mac App Store's security has been cracked. This means that, by installing a software called Kickback, you will be able to pirate any applications in the store. However, the crack will not.
As my colleague Rich Baldry pointed out earlier, Apple officially launched the Mac App Store today with their release of OS X 10.6.6. The App Store provides undeniable benefits to users who wish to easily find new programs and reduce the number of companies they share their credit card details with.
Unfortunately, many of the applications in the App Store can be pirated without payment. Developers of applications like Angry Birds appear to have ignored Apple’s advice on validating App Store receipts before launching.
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What does this mean? It allows people to reconfigure a paid application to run on other people’s Apple IDs without requiring them to purchase the app.
Assume that I have purchased Angry Birds for $5 and choose to share it with a fellow OS X user. The way this should work is that the game would prompt my friend to authenticate as me when they try to run it. Because they do not have my password, this should not work. But what some researchers have discovered is that I can copy my identity into the program and it will happily run despite not having been legally purchased.
While this clearly should be a concern for Mac App Store developers who don’t want their software stolen, and of course Apple, who does not want to lose out on App Store revenue, it also raises some security concerns around how applications are validated as coming from the App Store.
In the past, we saw that the primary reason many people chose to jailbreak their iPhones was to acquire pirated applications that they would otherwise have purchased from the App Store. Copy photos from photos app mac. With no validation mechanism in place, this left their iPhones vulnerable to malware and trojanized versions of these “off-market” downloads.
Will the App Store lead to the same problem? No doubt some Mac users, also too cheap thrifty to pay, will succumb to the temptation of Googling to acquire these cool apps/games/utilities at no cost.
Unfortunately, as I demonstrate below, some applications downloaded from the App Store can easily be modified to include any sort of executable code you wish. It wouldn’t surprise me to see a surge in markets for pirated applications that might just be booby-trapped to include unexpected surprises.
Mac OS X users should be as cautious as ever about programs they download from the internet. The Mac App Store may introduce you to interesting new programs you would like to run on OS X without paying, but you should always be cautious of getting something for nothing. Someone who claims to provide you with paid applications for free may not simply give you a free program, they may give you an unwanted infection.
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Its just Day 1 and within 9 hours of being launched, the . Reports have surfaced of software ‘pirates’ having figured out how to install and run unauthorized paid apps by copying the receipt files from a free app.
According to John Gruber of Daring Fireball, the vulnerability exists only in apps that don’t follow Apple’s app validation advice. For example, some apps check only for a valid receipt, without checking whether the receipt matches the app’s bundle ID.
Apart from this simple file replacement crack, some hackers claim to have cracked Apple’s security for the Mac App Store, according to Gizmodo. The crack will not be available until February 2011 though, according to Dissident, the hacker who created the hack – Kickback.
In late December, Dissident announced that the crack, named KickBack, would not be released “until well after the store’s been established” in an effort to ‘protect’ developers. “When we feel that [the Mac App Store] has a lot of crap in it, we’ll probably release Kickback,” said Dissident. So basically they’re giving Apple time to make a patch for a crack that isn’t even out yet.
At any rate, it indicates that the security of the Mac App Store is very easy to circumvent. Though developers reported support for Mac App Store receipts in early builds of Mac OS X 10.6.6, there’s no evidence that the Mac App Store was broadly or externally tested by Apple.
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However, the way in which the App Store has been cracked does not endanger your personal security unless you download pirated versions of the apps from untrusted sources that could package the pirated versions with malware. It is pretty hard to have a complete computing experience without some third party software on any OS.
Most people use social networking clients, online games, Adobe software, and etc. Piracy just allows the possibility that the third party software you are using is a carrier for malware. Moreover, this opens the door to wide piracy, which is not good for anyone, developers and users alike in the long term.So Apple is right, at least in this case — stay away from piracy to stay protected!