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Users hacking achievements / leaderboards

by Brian Ramage · in iTorque 2D · 02/01/2012 (11:45 am) · 2 replies

Since reporting achievements and leaderboard scores are exposed to script and I have implemented them in script on my app, I'm starting to get concerned that it would be super easy for users to open my app take a look at the scripts and report whatever score they want to the leaderboards.

Is there anything preventing this scenario from occurring? Apps aren't encrypted right? I imagine that Apple also doesn't checksum apps that are reporting leaderboards?


#1
02/01/2012 (12:53 pm)
@Brian - There are a couple measures you can take:

1. Ship DSO files, not the .cs
2. Move your functions into the source code

#2
02/01/2012 (9:51 pm)
Thanks Michael, yeah I forgot about using .dso's, that will help a bit, and yeah, was going to move the leaderboard reporting to code anyway.