2010-09-18, 12:52 PM
You're beating a dead horse here.
Hackshield is easily bypassed by people who know how and only checks for things that it's been specifically designed to look for, or Maple wouldn't be as overrun with hackers as it is.
As was already pointed out the only real secure way to handle an app would be do to it via cloud so that the "app" on the desktop is nothing more than an interface into the cloud where all the real logic gets done and then the app becomes untamperable with (unless you're stupid enough ala Nexon to let the app accept packets from the client without regard to whether or not those packets are appropriate).
Not all companies bother changing their schemes every version because a lot of them consider piracy inevitable and just go with it as a baked in operating cost loss. It just varies product by product and company by company.
Hackshield is easily bypassed by people who know how and only checks for things that it's been specifically designed to look for, or Maple wouldn't be as overrun with hackers as it is.
As was already pointed out the only real secure way to handle an app would be do to it via cloud so that the "app" on the desktop is nothing more than an interface into the cloud where all the real logic gets done and then the app becomes untamperable with (unless you're stupid enough ala Nexon to let the app accept packets from the client without regard to whether or not those packets are appropriate).
Not all companies bother changing their schemes every version because a lot of them consider piracy inevitable and just go with it as a baked in operating cost loss. It just varies product by product and company by company.