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Shazron Abdullah commented on CB-49:
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No - iOS is moving away from UDID for a reason (privacy) and we are following
the spirit of that intent.
Encoding the MAC address + bundle identifier I can argue, uniquely identifies
the user. If one had the MAC address, and one knows bundle-identifiers of any
app in the App Store (and this information is not a secret, it is contained in
the app's Info.plist), you can generate the hash and compare to your logs -
thus you can track the user easily. If the bundle-id of an app was secret, you
may have a case that this is "one way", but it is not.
> UUID replacement
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>
> Key: CB-49
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-49
> Project: Apache Cordova
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: iOS
> Environment: iOS 5
> Reporter: Shazron Abdullah
> Assignee: Shazron Abdullah
> Priority: Blocker
> Fix For: 1.6.0
>
>
> reported at: https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-iphone/issues/238
> by: https://github.com/sandstrom
> As you might have read iOS 5 will remove the UDID
> (http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/19/apple-ios-5-phasing-out-udid/).
> This is an excellent alternative and it would be nice if you would implement
> something along these lines to keep the functionality. The idea of hashing
> together with the bundle id is great, because it makes it impossible to track
> across applications, which is what apple wanted to fix (although it can be
> circumvented that would only anger them, and tracking across apps isn't
> required for most apps anyway).
> https://github.com/gekitz/UIDevice-with-UniqueIdentifier-for-iOS-5
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