Many Top iPhone Apps Collect Unique Device ID

Posted by Soulskill on Friday October 1, 2010 @11:19AM from the your-computer-is-broadcasting-a-UDID dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It looks like iPhone users are not immune to the types of data leaks recently discovered on the Android platform. Researchers looked at the top free applications available from the App Store and discovered that '68% of these applications were transmitting UDIDs to servers under the application vendor's control each time the application is launched.' The iPhone's Unique Device ID, or UDID, cannot be changed, nor can its transmission be disabled by the user. The full paper is available in PDF form."

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First Post! by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-01 11:22 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Postage Bitches!
mod 04 by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-01 11:41 · Score: -1, Offtopic

[tuxedo.org], series of explo3ing DYING. ALL MAJOR to say there have
Re:What's That? by iamhassi · 2010-10-01 12:17 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Maybe he watched 2 iPhones 1 iPod and really liked it and decided to do it at home

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