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Nokia Engineer Shows How To Pirate Windows 8 Metro Apps, Bypass In-app Purchases
MrSeb writes "The principal engineer for Nokia's WP7 and WP8 devices, Justin Angel, has demonstrated, in rather frank detail, how to pirate Windows 8 Metro apps, how to bypass in-app purchases, and how to remove in-game ads. These hacks aren't exactly easy, but more worryingly they're not exactly hard either. Angel shows that turning a trial version of a Metro app into the full version — i.e. pirating an app — is scarily simple. It's just a matter of downloading an open-source app and changing an XML attribute from 'Trial' to 'Full.' Likewise, a quick change to a XAML file can remove an app's ads. Bypassing in-app purchases is a little trickier, involving some reverse engineering of some DLLs and and decryption of database files, but Angel still makes it look fairly easy. Angel gives himself one million credits in Soulcraft, an RPG game — something that would cost you over a thousand dollars, if you performed a legitimate in-app purchase. Angel also demonstrates a way to bypass in-app purchases in WinJS (Metro/JavaScript) apps, by injecting scripts into IE10 (the rendering engine for WinJS apps). It's easy to blame Microsoft for this, but isn't this really an issue that is intrinsic to all installed applications? The fact is, Windows 8 Metro apps are stored on your hard drive — and this means that you have access to the code and data. Hex editors, save game editors, bypassing Adobe's 30-day trials by replacing DLL files, pirating Windows 8 apps — these are all just different incarnations of the same attack vectors."
SPIN? Of course you can do these on other platforms! Article is clearly an M$ shill.
I did this when I was 15'...
Damn! How tall are you now?
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Roll Windows 8 back to Windows 7?
If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people
Attention Slashdot,
On behalf of the DoJ (*) and the FBI (**), I must inform you that your link to instructions on changing an XML file are in violation of any number of laws, judicial opinions, and fantasies of various American politicians. Cease! Desist! Guantanamo remains open.
(*) Dumb oily jerks
(**) Folks bu****it inspired (***)
(***) Yeah, you can do better.
Both of them?
I prefer to use the term "Freedom Vectors" rather than "Attack Vectors". It's more honest to what you're actually doing.
If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits
[oblig]: Handy fact: "miles-per-gallon" (Imperial gallons mind you) is equivalent to "furlongs-per-pint" :)
I'll get my coat ...
If you don't pray in my school, I won't think in your church.
Anonymous Coward = Anonymous Coward
Sent from my ENIAC
Its nothing that hasn't been done for as long as I've used computers.
Come on BitZtream, we've been over this many times before. This is " on a mobile device ", so it's never been done before. Get with the times, man.
--- Keep the choice with the user..
I did this when I was 15'...
Damn! How tall are you now?
That's not his height. He meant to say he was 15 minutes old then.