[android-developers] Re: LVL security, are you sure that is secure, I'm a doubt in...?

ok, thanks for the reply.

On Jul 31, 4:02 am, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Eric F <ericfrie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > an unprotected app. There's no stopping that. The point is with LVL
> > that normal people (probably 95%+) of the market don't have a rooted
> > phone.
>
> Actually it doesn't matter whether they have a rooted phone.  This is one of
> the big reasons for moving to this over forward locking -- forward locking
> requires trusting the device and its operating system to protect the app.
>  With the new licensing model, the app does not need to have any trust in
> the device it is running on or the market client app.  This gets rid of all
> of the issues that forward locking has with apps not showing up on devices
> that were not whitelisted/trusted.
>
> --
> Dianne Hackborn
> Android framework engineer
> hack...@android.com
>
> Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to
> provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails.  All such
> questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and
> answer them.

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