I’ve been developing a programming a new application for the android os. Currently I’ve been working on a hex-editor that can run on the device, since I’m pretty tired of dump all the files onto my server, especially since I usually just examine the files on paper later in a notebook.

Saddly my laptop is acting up right now, looks like some type of Virtumondu-esk malware hitting it pretty hard.

Anyway - I have more of the behind the scenes stuff working for the hex-editor, however the hard part is making a good and functional ui. I guess soon enough we will see how this works out!

Also, on a little side note I was thinking of morphing .apk and .dex files… .apk files are meant to be read-only, however if you have a rooted phone this could be changed. While an .apk file is installed with the certain “permissions”, it might be possible to modify the .apk and create something that will use more permissions. Possibly opening the gate to malware or some other type things. Good or bad, it seems like it could be an interesting premise.

So it looks like the Gasbot team has made the product a “trial” with the need to purchase a license. A quick look at their website - which doesn’t explain much looks like it is a key based on your phone number.
This seems quiet plausible since they do require permissions to read your phone number. I originally had Gasbot installed on my android, so I installed it over the current version to see what it looked like know to no avail. It keeps detecting that my trial period is up. It alerted me to uninstall, reinstall, reboot - nothing seemed to work so I can’t comment on what input method they are using to confirm that it might be a keygen behind the scenes.

I’ll look into that a bit later - lately I’ve been busy dissecting the android market cache, trying to rework some things and getting some… Behinds the scenes projects working. It’s crazy though with the holidays and what not. I wonder if a keygen for gasbot will pop up soon? It seems like the first good application that is starting to charge.

No updates for the past few days - mainly because I’ve been shoveling everyday and watching loads of chinese movies.

I’ll post some results about more modified Vending.dex/.odex and other stuff.

So much snow! I’ll post some pictures later probably too.