# What about better security on the new sdk to prevent ripping?

**URL:** https://ask.vrchat.com/t/what-about-better-security-on-the-new-sdk-to-prevent-ripping/19909
**Category:** General Discussion
**Tags:** avatar, world
**Created:** [September 13, 2023, 2:43am UTC](https://ask.vrchat.com/t/what-about-better-security-on-the-new-sdk-to-prevent-ripping/19909 "2023-09-13T02:43:02Z")
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### Author: ![Spokeek](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/vrchat/user_avatar/ask.vrchat.com/spokeek/32/39001_2.png) [@Spokeek](https://ask.vrchat.com/u/Spokeek)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2023, 9:06am UTC](https://ask.vrchat.com/t/what-about-better-security-on-the-new-sdk-to-prevent-ripping/19909/2 "2023-09-17T09:06:05Z")

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There was a statement from @tupper in the last update.

> [@Developer Update - 14 September 2023](https://ask.vrchat.com/t/developer-update-14-september-2023/19931):
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> Welcome to the Developer Update for 14 September 2023! The featured world for this Dev Update is [Beyond a bit - 想像のちょっと先へ](https://vrchat.com/home/launch?worldId=wrld_3dcabc45-b66b-4d38-abaa-d2922ca4d678) by [EstyOctober](https://twitter.com/EstyOctober). Gather up your friends, grab the key, unlock the chest, and enjoy the ride. If you’d like to catch up, you can read our [previous Developer Update from 31 August](https://ask.vrchat.com/t/developer-update-31-august-2023/19752). Important Info / Announcements Recent Unity News If you weren’t aware, [Unity recently announced some changes to its pricing and licensing structure.](https://blog.unity.com/news/plan-pricing-and-packaging-updates) You’ve s…

Basically some security elements are put in place to deal with rippers, but there is two main problems with it.

First, they try to do security through obscurity, by not sharing security elements, it makes it harder to counter them, but they will find a way anyway at some point.

Two, the ripping problem is a structural problem, even if you encrypt or do anything, in the end, the avatar or world is run on your pc, so you need to decrypt it, and as you do, it gets possible to dump it.

All of that to say that they can make it harder and harder, but there will be no final solution to that.

Hope I could light up aspects of your question

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