Well, that didn’t take long. Just a couple of weeks after the launch of the iPhone App Store, ‘unauthorised’ copies of apps and games are beginning to find their way onto people’s phones and crackers are finding their way around the barriers that Apple has erected.
The most simple workaround is possible due to a slight flaw in the way FairPlay DRM associates a legitimate purchase with an iTunes login.
The system does not record the unique device ID of the phone used to make the purchase - it is therefore possible to load apps on other phones registered to your copy of iTunes.
There is also a technique to allo Jailbroken phones to run cracked apps. It isn’t the simplest of operations and does require perhaps more effort than even a game of Super Monkey Ball is truly worth, but it can’t be long before some enterprising coder knocks up a nice and simple homebrew app to do the legwork for you.
