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DevJuice: Apple will no longer accept apps that use UDID calls starting May 1

by Erica Sadun (Mar 21st, 2013)

Apple has posted a warning on their developer news site that they will no longer accept apps that reference the unique device identifier, starting May 1. It writes, "Starting May 1, the App Store will no longer accept new apps or app updates that access UDIDs. Please update your apps and ...

Hacker sentenced to 41 months for exploiting AT&T iPad security flaw

by Mike Schramm (Mar 18th, 2013)

Hacker Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer was found guilty last year of spoofing iPad user IDs to gain access to an AT&T email database, and he's now been sentenced to 41 months in prison. The time was chalked up to one count of identity fraud and one count of conspiracy to access a computer without ...

Apple: iPhone tracking lawsuit doesn't demonstrate harm

by Steven Sande (Mar 1st, 2013)

Remember when a group of plaintiffs decided to sue Apple, alleging that the company was allowing free apps from the App Store to gather geographical location information without their consent? Well, Bloomberg reports that Apple was in US District Court in California on Wednesday, asking Judge ...

Apple rejecting iOS apps for "cookie tracking"

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 26th, 2013)

Apple is moving developers towards adopting the company's own iOS 6 tracking technology and not their homegrown methods. One of these alternative techniques is cookie tracking and, according to a report in TechCrunch, Apple may be rejecting apps that use this method. To understand how we got ...

David Schuetz cracked the case of stolen iPhone UDIDs

by Kelly Hodgkins (Sep 11th, 2012)

Earlier this week, Blue Toad publishing confirmed that it, and not the FBI, was the source of 1 million UDIDs leaked by hacker group AntiSec. The company was tipped off by mobile security expert David Schuetz of Intrepidus Group, who spent days poring through the data and discovered references ...

Blue Toad publishing claims itself as source of leaked UDID database

by Kelly Hodgkins (Sep 10th, 2012)

According to a report in NBC news, a small publishing company is the source of Apple UDIDs leaked by hacker group AntiSec. AntiSec and Anonymous claimed the UDIDs were stolen from an FBI employee's laptop, but the governmental agency denied that it was the source the leak. Paul DeHart, CEO of ...

FBI and Apple separately deny being source of leaked iPhone UDIDs

by Kelly Hodgkins (Sep 5th, 2012)

Yesterday, hacker group AntiSec released 1 million UDIDs from a pool of 12 million that it allegedly obtained from an FBI-issued laptop. The group used this high-profile leak to accuse the FBI of spying on the American public. Late on Tuesday, the FBI responded to AllThingsD with its own ...

Daily Update for September 4, 2012

by Steven Sande (Sep 4th, 2012)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player ...

Hackers reportedly leak 1M iOS UDIDs (updated)

by Kelly Hodgkins (Sep 4th, 2012)

Update: The New York Times reports that F.B.I has released a statement saying there's no indication that an FBI laptop was compromised or that the FBI sought out the data to begin with. Hacker group AntiSec claims to have 12 million iPhone and iPad UDIDs it obtained during an attack on an FBI ...

Apple cracks down on site selling iOS 6 betas

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jul 9th, 2012)

MacStories has a follow-up to a Wired report that details the practice of selling access to Apple beta software. The Wired article profiles several websites that'll add your UDID to a developer account so you can download and activate iOS betas on your device. Each site charges a small fee, ...

On the UDID ban: Tracking devices, users and advertisers

by TUAW Blogger (May 15th, 2012)

Over the past few weeks, several ad networks have announced "UDID-independent" conversion tracking tools. As Apple's UDID ban has gone into effect, mobile advertising has had to find other ways to track device users. The problem with this is, of course, that they're still tracking. Apple's SDK ...

Confirmation of Apple rejecting an app for accessing UDID

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 30th, 2012)

Paul Haddad of Tapbots confirmed that Apple is rejecting apps which send out UDIDs. The developer posted a rejection notice for version 2.2 of its popular twitter client Tweetbot. The notice says that Tweetbot was rejected because the "app does not obtain user consent before collecting their ...

DevJuice: Apple begins unique identifier crackdown

by Erica Sadun (Mar 25th, 2012)

The Verge writes that Apple has apparently begun to crack down on apps submitted using the now deprecated UDID (unique device identifier) APIs that allow developers to track individual devices. The programmer interface used to return an alphanumeric string unique to each deployed device. It was ...

iMessages reportedly still sent to stolen iPhones (Updated)

by Kelly Hodgkins (Dec 20th, 2011)

Update: Daring Fireball pointed to this recommendation from Jesse Hollington: set a SIM PIN code, which will prevent your phone from registering with the cellular network after a reset or a SIM swap until/unless the PIN is entered. Be extremely careful, however, as the iPhone settings UI can be ...

Dev Juice: Help me generate unique identifiers

by Erica Sadun (Aug 21st, 2011)

Dear Dev Juice, Can you help me generate a unique identifier for my iOS apps? I don't want to rely on using UDIDs anymore. I'd say why but then you'd have to shoot me. Watm-ever Dear Watm-ever That sounds dire. Let's avoid the violence and focus on the Core Foundation. Here you go. If ...