Except that for normal usages at the application level, the UUID is
generated by the app and placed in its private per-app storage, which is
always erased on a factory-reset. To Andrew Allen: I strongly recommend
factory-resetting your phone before you sell it, and also factory-resetting
any phones you buy second-hand, just to be sure. Most people do this, for
good reason. -T
On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Scott Brim
<scott(_dot_)brim(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Andrew Allen
<aallen(_at_)blackberry(_dot_)com>
wrote:
Tim
The quote is from RFC 5626 which also states:
"3.1. Summary of Mechanism
Each UA has a unique instance-id that stays the same for this UA even if
the
UA reboots or is power cycled."
Since the UUID in the instance ID is also static how is this
significantly
different in terms of privacy concerns from the IMEI being used as an
instance ID?
You're not demonstrating that an IMEI is just as good, you're
demonstrating that a UUID is just as bad.