Well since I got down modded on my GP post, I will reply to your comment here as well...

We did actually consider this, and decided it wasn't the way to go. Our primary concern being that we run the risk of losing our developer license.

It would be fine if we were developing an app for a single client, which they would own the rights to on delivery. But what if we have multiple clients who want the same system? We could have each client add us as an authorized developer so we could sign the code using their certificates, but this is clearly in contradiction to to Apple's app store model, and probably would not end well for us were they to find out what we were up to (and there is a paper trail).

After weighing the risks, we decided it would be best to brave the approval process for the Volume Purchasing Program. As it turns out, it was a good decision. We got our product delivered on time, and now we can start working on an "ideal" solution.

The bottom line is that developing enterprise applications for a walled garden presents additional risk, and we are now taking active steps to eliminate that risk entirely.

We did actually consider this, and decided it wasn't the way to go. Our primary concern being that we run the risk of losing our developer license.

It would be fine if we were developing an app for a single client, which they would own the rights to on delivery. But what if we have multiple clients who want the same system? We could have each client add us as an authorized developer so we could sign the code using their certificates, but this is clearly in contradiction to to Apple's app store model, and probably would not end well for us were they to find out what we were up to (and there is a paper trail).

After weighing the risks, we decided it would be best to brave the approval process for the Volume Purchasing Program. As it turns out, it was a good decision.

If you actually read the terms carefully, this only authorizes you to distribute the app to internal employees. I know because we have an Enterprise license, which is pretty much entirely useless to us (as a provider of B2B services). We need to go through the standard approval process to get our app in the Volume Purchasing Program (which I imagine is what these guys in TFA actually needed).

You are the one without a clue. We are a small company that develops (among other things) internal training software for much larger corporations. Using the enterprise license, we are only allowed to install on our own devices, and not the client's. Only the Volume Purchasing Program will work for our business model, which puts us entirely at Apple's mercy to deliver our products. We are so fed up with the process, we spent the last year stripping functionality so we can make it work as a web app.

My thoughts exactly. To bad you got a -1 for them. Oh, and I did RTFA, and you were right. The complaint here is that some IP was violated. Fuck those guys, and fuck their "name brand" airbags (which are probably made in china anyways).

This one has my vote. :-)

Not possible, given your requirements. You will need to choose between relying on the deprecated UDID, lack of a perma-ban abilty (token generated on install), or requiring a login.

It's hard to watch a video on a page that continually loops a flash add (with sound), and with no way to stop it. For those of you who have trouble paying attention to people talking over each other, here is a link to the video on youtube.

You are missing the point entirely.

If you do not restrict your input (at least to some extent), you open up the crypto library on your system as a potential attack vector. Granted, its not very likely to come across an exploitable flaw of this nature, but even the best programmers make mistakes. Bottom line, opening up a pipe (completely unrestricted input) to a low level system service is a bad idea. I think a sane limit on password input (maybe 256 - 512 printable latin ascii characters) is reasonable.

Parent and GP should pitch in and set up a proxy/cache server with a colo inside the service area.

Industrial is a form of electronica, and electronica is usually referred to as "techno."

We could get rid of copyright and just make plagiarism illegal instead.