Hackers just love to see the different ways they can get to Apple, and with the Apple Mac Store not even being open 24 hours, one person has already found a way to get pirate copies of apps from the store.
Dissidient, a member of the hacking community Hackulous (which infamously managed to crack Apple's Digital Rights Management for iOS) has managed to develop a piece of software called Kickback; a programme which allows users to pirate any app in the Mac App Store. The Kickback software is supposedly going to be available to pirates at some time in February 2011.
Also, a tutorial on how to download and install cracked apps has surfaced, which uses a loop in 'freemium' apps which allows users to trick the app into thinking you've purchased it, making the full version available for use.
It is unknown how Apple are going to deal with these problems so quickly after the Mac App Store's release, but expect plenty of patch counter-measures in the future. Of course we don't advocate piracy, and hope that Apple can sort out the piracy hack before developers get too heavily affected by it. Jailbreaking your Apple devices is still cool though of course.
Via: Geeky Gadgets