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Yeah, this gives a whole new meaning to having live backups/redundancy. I guess this is an advantage of hosting on EC2 since there would be difficult for the FBI to seize the physical server.
It would be easier on EC2 since the FBI could just have Amazon clone your EBS volume and you'd never be the wiser.
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While yes, it was generally poor, I got a kick out of the following: "a monthly fee, forever until you die. That's the future; nothing is really yours. LAAS - Life As A Service."
Not too poignant. When was living ever free?
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Not quite. Part of the point was that "hardware coded IDs for devices concept should be erradicated from any device on the market in the future." I'd place MAC addresses in that bucket as well. A company like Apple that's been changing the status quo for years should be striving to do the same when it comes to their user's privacy and anonymity
MAC addresses too? How do you propose to make networks work?
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Doesn't a popular iOS developer have the same information? UDIDs, APNS tokens (for push notifications), basic demographic information is something a popular social app or game might have. 12 million is a pretty good number, though. edit: our iOS app has over 2 million of these type of device records (though we don't collect any demographic info, so just device ids, apns tokens, device names, device types -- standard…
Well, at least the FBI is not going to share your personal information with advertisers, or (opt-in) spam you to death trying to sell you something. The FBI's mission is reasonably clear; it's a government-regulated organization; it's non-commercial. They have a certain amount of accountability. Alas, we can't say the same for "popular iOS developers". We've seen how sneaky some iOS app developers can be with respect…
(and yeah, I know this is probably going to hammer my HN karma all the way to the bottom but...lol man)
I can't see a way out of spying it's own cytizen and keep them in the beleif they aren't to achive the goal.
One of the question to be asked is who is controlling the controllers ?
Marco Arment thinks that the All Clear ID app is responsible for this leak: http://www.marco.org/2012/09/04/fbi-udid-leak Can anyone who can confirm they're on the list confirm that was one of their apps?
Chen, a journalist at Gawker, actually did it: http://gawker.com/
Not even bothering to submit this as a story to HN because I'm pretty sure Gawker links get auto-killed (with good reason, the Gawker article is crap).
I can't believe with nearly 100 comments I appear to be the only one to call the whole story of how these were acquired into doubt. I'm not saying that the FBI story isn't true, but so many comments here just assume it to be 100% factual - there's no evidence that it was taken from the FBI vs found on a USB Stick in the garbage. It's a big story, yes, but I think maybe a deep breath is in order before we all accuse t…
I guess we better start tracking everything the FBI does. You know, so we can prove their innocence. Besides, what's the big deal... if they have nothing to hide then they have nothing to worry about!