why not imsi?

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 4:55 AM, Wayne Wenthin <[email protected]> wrote:

> wow replying to myself...   So as I was reading other posts here I came
> across an idea.   We (well I am) are talking about the ANDROID_ID as if it
> were a MAC.   I haven't looked but if the phone supports Wi-Fi wouldn't it
> need an MAC?
> Going to look at the SDK docs now.
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Wayne Wenthin <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Sorry Mark I misread your earlier post.   I don't know where I got a
>> number from....  ;-)
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Mark Murphy <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> RichardC wrote:
>>> > Given that people are rooting phones and producing their own custom
>>> > platform builds I cannot see how any field can be relied on to be
>>> > unique across all devices.
>>>
>>> Good point. ANDROID_ID is stored in a SQLite database IIRC, so you do
>>> not even need to replace the firmware to hack the ID -- just have root
>>> access on the device.
>>>
>>> --
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>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Writing code is one of few things
>> that teaches me I don't know everything.
>>
>> http://www.fuligin.com
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Writing code is one of few things
> that teaches me I don't know everything.
>
> http://www.fuligin.com
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> >
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