Able to extend trial days by changing system timeSolved

Hello all, I have successfully integrated the Turbo-activate related function with the sample product application. I have enabled the trial option for the product using TA_UseTrial() function. By changing the system time and date using timedatectl command in Ubuntu, I am able to extend the trial days. Is there any way to prevent the trial days extension though system time and date changes?Thanks in advance...

Kamal,

TurboActivate already has a slew of client-side anti-fraud methods built in. TurboActivate 4.1 adds a whole bunch more, and even adds callbacks to are called immediately when the trial is expired or deemed fraudulently modified.

No hard date for the 4.1 release. ASAP.

The same works for me. By changing date back trial can be easily extended. Tested under Windows.

Any news on this issue? When is the 4.1 supposed to be released?

No hard date. This is high priority for us. We dont have a good enough time tracking infrastructure in place to give good estimates yet. After the outrage at our inaccurate 4.0 release date estimates we wont give time estimates until we have that time tracking infrastructure in-place.

Shorter answer: ASAP.

The good news is that the client-side fraud detection in 4.0 is good right now (not perfect) and it *is* susceptible to cooked up experiments where the local clock is rolled forward when a customer is already in a trial will add time to the trial. Real world usage of TurboActivate 4.0 is better at detecting client-side fraud (because real world Time is elapsing and TA is able to collect real world data points on the actual time on the computer).

TA 4.1 solves the cooked up experiments from showing long trial lengths. Plus it also solves more edge cases of real-world client-side fraud.

Also, client-side fraud detection will *always* be imperfect no matter what product you use. Its just the nature of doing verification of a trial without *requiring* an active internet connection while they use your app. The licensing (us, in this case) needs to collect real world data points and ignore fraudulent ones all without having access to a trusted source in the real world.

In case when internet connection is assumed for normal operation of sw, is there a way to ask the server for the actual remaining days in the current version?

"Cooked up" fraud, and more real-world fraud are solved in the latest version of TurboActivate, now out.

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