Microsoft's new Marketplace security reportedly cracked already

Here nosotros go again. A couple of days before the Windows Marketplace for Mobile officially launched in October, XDA Developers member Chainfire published his workaround to Microsoft'southward minimal security measures. When you load an app from the Marketplace, information technology's done transparent to the user, with no CAB file left behind.

Fast forward to today, and Chainfire's let us know that he's bypassed Microsoft new "avant-garde" security, which was rolled-out along with Web admission to the Marketplace. New is the utilize of license keys that tin can be baked into apps. These keys are controlled by Microsoft, not the developer. Says Chainfire:

This new "advanced" protection was released today by Microsoft, and equally far as I know no app available already uses it at the time of this writing.

And so I got the code snippets you are supposed to put in your app and information technology was just jawdroppingly WTF. While it was non exactly piece of cake to beat, it took me less than two hours to devise a "generic" hack, without modifying any files on the device. (Well hey, at to the lowest degree information technology's meliorate than the 5 minutes it took for the "basic" protection, right?)

A "generic" hack? Yep, by this I hateful that this single hack (actually, running an EXE in the background) volition completely bypass the unabridged code snippet provided by Microsoft that is supposed to check and validate your license code, for all Marketplace apps that utilise this "avant-garde" protection.

Indeed, that's no good. But Chainfire says he'southward no Robin Hood, stealing from the rich and giving to the residual of us.

I will not publish the code that performs this hack, and then don't enquire. My goal is not to crack Marketplace apps, my goal is to get MS off their ass and allow usa to use our own licensing systems, like the good little resellers they're supposed to be. I will tell you that information technology has to exercise with runtime patching the crypto API, but that'southward it. All in all, I don't think information technology will take long for the warez people to duplicate this hack.

Follow along in the XDA thread, and let's hope, for developers' sake, that things get worked out.

Thanks, Chainfire!

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