I\'m building a blacklisting service for cracked iPhone apps and I am curious if I missed a method for detecting cracked apps.
In the moment following app crack detectio
NEVER try and block jailbroken devices from using your app, just cracked ones. If you block jailbroken devices they'll be forced to use a patched version with all the checks removed.
Also ALL my devices are jailbroken so if a developer blocks jailbroken devices I would have to ignore their apps.
Over 10% of all iDevices are jailbroken so this is a very bad idea.
EDIT: As I'm getting lots of down votes for this I'll post some methods to detect a jailbreak.
- (BOOL)fileExistsAtPath:(NSString *)path{
NSLog(@"Check if file '%@' exists", path);
struct stat buffer;
return stat([path UTF8String], &buffer) == 0;
}
- (BOOL)jailbroken{
return ([self fileExistsAtPath:@"/Applications/Cydia.app"]);
}
-(IBAction)rootCheck:(id)sender {
NSArray *jailbrokenPath = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:
@"/Applications/Cydia.app",
@"/Applications/RockApp.app",
@"/Applications/Icy.app",
@"/usr/sbin/sshd",
@"/usr/bin/sshd",
@"/usr/libexec/sftp-server",
@"/Applications/WinterBoard.app",
@"/Applications/SBSettings.app",
@"/Applications/MxTube.app",
@"/Applications/IntelliScreen.app",
@"/Library/MobileSubstrate/DynamicLibraries/Veency.plist",
@"/Applications/FakeCarrier.app",
@"/Library/MobileSubstrate/DynamicLibraries/LiveClock.plist",
@"/private/var/lib/apt",
@"/Applications/blackra1n.app",
@"/private/var/stash",
@"/private/var/mobile/Library/SBSettings/Themes",
@"/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.ikey.bbot.plist",
@"/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.saurik.Cydia.Startup.plist",
@"/private/var/tmp/cydia.log",
@"/private/var/lib/cydia", nil];
NSString *rooted;
for(NSString *string in jailbrokenPath)
if ([[NSFileManager defaultManager] fileExistsAtPath:string])
rooted=@"y";
else
rooted=@"n";
NSLog(@"%@", rooted);
}
sample code: http://www.evernote.com/shard/s13/sh/e45f27ee-3dd5-4eb1-9f56-1981cdd3286b/bc156eb773315647c13c2c7ee4191866