Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Android antipiracy cracked, Google says devs used it wrong

In response to growing concerns among third-party developers about Android application piracy, Google recently released a new framework called the License Verification Library (LVL). It is intended to make it easier for Android applications to verify that the user is authorized to run the software. The framework is still at an early stage of development, however, and has already been shown to be susceptible to a trivially simple attack.