Google's recently implemented anti-piracy system for developers has proven to be largely ineffective, white hat hacker Justin Case discovered today. Despite supposedly giving tighter reins over apps, Android License Verification Library (ALVL) has been cracked quickly by making a simple code patch that tricks Android into believing an app has a valid license to run on the system. In a demo to Android Police, case noted the approach doesn't require root access to the OS and could be automated to use a script to patch apps for inexperienced users.
