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You have to store the key with the data. These contracts are silly. :(
by gburt 14y ago
You have to store the key with the data. These contracts are silly. :(
- Firehed 14y agoFont designers are not security experts, just as the music and movie industry are also not security experts. There's just as high of a chance that these fonts are already posted to torrent sites, too. At least with custom/designer fonts, they're not really designed to have mass-market appeal, but instead cater to having a few high-end, high-price customers. So trying to protect them, even ineffectively, makes a little more sense: the number of people inconvenienced for a given amount of item sales is far less than on a movie. But yes, it's pointless.
- smackfu 14y agoIt only prevents casual piracy, where someone fairly non-technical opens the bundle and copies the original file out. Reverse-engineering the encryption is of course possible but much harder.
- sneak 14y agoNot really. Casual pirates grab it off The Pirate Bay or similar where it's already in cleartext.
- plorkyeran 14y agoOpening an iOS app bundle and copying a file out is already out of reach of a non-technical person.
- smackfu 14y agoTrue. But I am certainly technical enough to do it, while I have no chance of breaking a coded decryption routine.
- mistercow 14y agoThe same is basically true of any non-phoning-home copy protection scheme though. It is crackable, but it's a barrier. After all, the game is not to make the data impossible to get to. It's to make it more work to get to the data than the data is worth.