Adobe AIR Development

[peter9477]

@EnerJi, yes, it could be used to pirate paid apps, and that's exactly the reason many people are voting to have this issue resolved. I'm quite sure that fact is not lost on the RIM employees currently involved in discussing this issue.

[banzai76]

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EnerJi wrote:

Couldn't this vulnerability be used to pirate paid apps?  If so, then there's already PLENTY of evidence of mass pirating going on in the Android platform.  I don't think it's wise to wait until something is a problem when proactive steps can be taken to minimize the chance of it becoming a serious problem.

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Are you talking about 'mass pirating' operations on the Android plaform in general? Or specifically a 'mass pirating' operation to crack open AIR apps to rip-off the swf ?

I know of the former, but that's a much more general problem, and would be an argument against development of any kind of Android app.

But I would like to see evidence of AIR apps spedifically being targeted because of the vulnerability highlighted in this thread. I believe if that was the case then there would be ripped-off Android AIR games being recompiled and appearing for the iPhone and the PlayBook?

[Innovatology]

OK RIM, it's been 9 months now. Our apps are actively being pirated. What is being done about this?

[jtegen]

When you say "actively being pirated", where on the web are you seeing this?

[peter9477]

John, I'll send you the link in a PM. No reason to broadcast it...

By the way, there are more than one. This is the third place I've seen many of those apps, including Battery Guru, and I'm sure there are others.

[pyth]

could you send me the link in a pm as well? a while ago i was wondering why the name of some apps appeared on some strange sites, but i paid no more attention to it. and - what a coincidence - i was just browsing around here, but this caught my interest

thx

[peter9477]

Will do, pyth.

By the way, I'd only share this around to known developers who actively contribute here... just to avoid giving them extra publicity, though I'm sure they're not that hard to find either.

[zezke]

Can I get a PM as well please? I am worried.

[jtegen]

In OS 2 (and it might have been there earlier), apps that are side loaded stop working after the debug token has expired. I am wondering how many people would take the time to side load and refresh their tokens every month. If they spend the money on a PlayBook device, I am wondering why they don't have the $25-$50 or so in total price of apps that a normal consumer might purchase. Yes, any opportunity to shut down illegal sites should be taken, because the scale could get out of hand. Just seems like a real pain to get an app...

[MauriceRice]

jtegen wrote:
In OS 2 (and it might have been there earlier), apps that are side loaded stop working after the debug token has expired. I am wondering how many people would take the time to side load and refresh their tokens every month. If they spend the money on a PlayBook device, I am wondering why they don't have the $25-$50 or so in total price of apps that a normal consumer might purchase. Yes, any opportunity to shut down illegal sites should be taken, because the scale could get out of hand. Just seems like a real pain to get an app...

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I have loaded my signed app onto my son's device (which does not have a debug token installed) and it remains operational indefinitely. Same thing on my own device after the debug token expires.