Difference between revisions of "Misuse of enterprise and developer certificates"

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Some of them used an expired provisioning profile that required the user to set the device's time back to 2012 before installing the app (the "date trick"). The ability to use expired profiles like that [http://venturebreak.com/2014/10/18/ios-8-1-kills-movie-box-unapproved-apps-use-date-trick/ was fixed with iOS 8.1].
 
Some of them used an expired provisioning profile that required the user to set the device's time back to 2012 before installing the app (the "date trick"). The ability to use expired profiles like that [http://venturebreak.com/2014/10/18/ios-8-1-kills-movie-box-unapproved-apps-use-date-trick/ was fixed with iOS 8.1].
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Related, there are also people who sell access to normal iOS developer certificates, which allow you to self-sign apps to install them on non-jailbroken iOS devices, meant for developers working on apps. These certificates cost $99/year from Apple, but each certificate can be associated with 100 devices, so people sometimes sell some of those "UDID slots".
   
 
== Examples ==
 
== Examples ==

Revision as of 23:24, 7 April 2015

There is some distribution of apps outside the App Store using provisioning profiles and enterprise certificates, which allows those apps to be installed on non-jailbroken iOS devices. This violates Apple's developer agreements.

Some of them used an expired provisioning profile that required the user to set the device's time back to 2012 before installing the app (the "date trick"). The ability to use expired profiles like that was fixed with iOS 8.1.

Related, there are also people who sell access to normal iOS developer certificates, which allow you to self-sign apps to install them on non-jailbroken iOS devices, meant for developers working on apps. These certificates cost $99/year from Apple, but each certificate can be associated with 100 devices, so people sometimes sell some of those "UDID slots".

Examples

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