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Re:Electron apps cannot be submitted to the Apple store by saagarjha on Sunday November 03, 2019 @07:15PM (#21437779)
Of course you can! How do you think Apple's checking your binaries?
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Re:Electron apps cannot be submitted to the Apple store by megous on Sunday November 03, 2019 @09:49PM (#21438602)
Using some internal tool.
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Re:Electron apps cannot be submitted to the Apple store by justinclift on Monday November 04, 2019 @02:57AM (#21439700)
The internal tool is very likely using/parsing otool / ldd output and similar. eg cli tooling that comes with macOS itself
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Re:Electron apps cannot be submitted to the Apple store by saagarjha on Sunday November 03, 2019 @10:33PM (#21438816)
No, it’s almost certainly just a search for strings and looking through the symbol table.
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Re:Electron apps cannot be submitted to the Apple store by megous on Monday November 04, 2019 @12:02PM (#21443648)
That would be very easy to work around with dlopen and some string obfuscation. It's probably a bit more involved.
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Re:Electron apps cannot be submitted to the Apple store by plorkyeran on Monday November 04, 2019 @01:57PM (#21445054)
In practice it is pretty easy to slip things past the automated checks if you try to, which is one of the reasons they threaten you with a permaban for doing so.
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