No Peeking
Unless you want your high scores boards filled up with bored hackers’ fake data – 20,000 users with high scores of 999,999! – then you’ve got to encrypt any data you send over the network and any date you save on the phone. It’s too easy for hackers to snag this data and wreak havoc on your high scores or, much much worse, with the passwords, phone numbers, and/or credit card information of your users. You’re a custodian of this data and if your users don’t trust you, you’re sunk. Simple as that. Here is some code that will help keep sensitive information private and hackers out of your high score boards:
