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by dasil003 3947 days ago
Except you have get through Apple's code review and then once you activate Apple can push a button and wipe out all the installs with a single button push.

Yeah, cracking is asymmetric warfare that we have no hope of winning, I think anyone with any knowledge of computers realizes that is true. It doesn't mean we should smugly shoot down anything that makes it incrementally harder.

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That is nothing that cannot be trivially obviated with a date check before doing bad stuff.
That seems to be orthogonal to the sandbox, which is the measure under criticism here.