Jon, I'd welcome any attempt to automate the processes of removing the copy protection from an APK and provide a working APK again.
Al. --- * Written an Android App? - List it at http://andappstore.com/ * ====== Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jon Colverson Sent: 31 March 2009 15:17 To: Android Discuss Subject: [android-discuss] Re: Piracy and app "protection" On Mar 31, 2:20 pm, "Al Sutton" <[email protected]> wrote: > If it is possible to decompile the dex find and remove any and all > license checks and then recompile then an attacker would need to do it > for each release of each app they wanted to crack. Although this isn't > impossible, the level of effort required is pretty significant. I have high confidence that this process could be automated into an auto-cracking tool. I reckon I could do it in a week, and someone with reverse engineering experience could probably do it in a day. I wouldn't deem that a significant amount of effort. What I would deem significant is the amount of effort required to implement and deploy such a scheme, and the support effort required to deal with the edge cases (such as people moving to different phones or phone numbers). -- Jon --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
