Any attempts by anyone to create a repeatable method that can crack the 
system for any desired app would be welcomed. I'd rather any problems 
were named and shamed that try and hide them.

Al.

Jon Colverson wrote:
> On Mar 1, 9:17 am, Al Sutton <a...@funkyandroid.com> wrote:
>   
>> I think we're going to have to agree to disagree.
>>
>> As I see it you're not willing to factor in the difficulty level in
>> cracking the system and implementing a generic method as a
>> differentiating factor between the protection methods, whereas my
>> viewpoint is based on the level of effort needed to break the
>> AndAppStore licensing system being sufficiently high to ensure that it's
>> not worth doing (part of the reason the source code for licensing checks
>> is available 
>> fromhttp://andappstore.com/AndroidPhoneApplications/licensing.jspis so that
>> developers can vary how it's included in their code and thus eliminate
>> the possibility of attackers scanning for a constant class name or byte
>> code pattern).
>>     
>
> That's a fair summary of my position. I still don't think that the
> AndAppStore system would be particularly difficult to break, and I've
> e-mailed you off-list about the specifics.
>
>   
>> Thanks for putting the effort in to continue the conversation to this point.
>>     
>
> Yes, you too. It was an interesting debate.
>
> --
> Jon
>
> >
>   


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