title: Security: LVL vs. in-app purchases
body: <p>My first paid Android app was mercilessly cracked within 1 day, which made me realize how pathetic LVL security is.</p>
  
  <p>My next app will monetize with managed in-app purchases of content, which seems more secure than LVL because in-app purchases are signed with a private key that can be verified by my content server. My app can be cracked and redistributed easily but my content server cannot. (I know nothing is absolutely secure but this approach looks better than LVL).</p>
  
  <p>It seems to me the only way to crack in-app purchases is to:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Hack my content server</li>
  <li>Crack my private key</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Are in-app purchases more secure than LVL or am I being naive?
  Is the private key easy to crack?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance...</p>