This will be a working in progress so this post might be updated a few times.
As promised, a reader sent me the Mac App Store (MAS) validation guidelines (thank you again!) and I got curious about one detail, the exit(173). This guides states if application fails to validate the receipt because it’s not present, then it should exit with status 173. This status will be interpreted by the system and it will try to obtain a valid receipt – this is the reason why you see that message asking for Sign in when the receipt isn’t valid and you can see the email address of the guy who released that app to the wild.
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