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Asked: 2026-05-31T19:27:14+00:00

I have an iPhone app that will incorporate liking / +1 with a global

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I have an iPhone app that will incorporate “liking” / “+1” with a global leaderboard of the highest ranking items. I’m communicating the +1 to the backend server over HTTPS. Additionally I’m using a password so that people can’t tamper with the results.

My dilemma is that the password is currently a hardcoded plaintext NSString which can be easily read if a jailbroken user goes looking in the app bundle.

Is the best solution simply to obfuscate the string, and then de-obfuscate it at runtime? Or am I going about this all wrong?

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  1. Editorial Team

    you can obfuscate it using a mix of characters C strings and objective-C string making it harder to find :

    See this blog post about it

    As well you can use some measleading #define directives

    But I agree, these are only obfuscation “tricks”.

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