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Avidan Chen commented on CB-49:
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Excellent! I was hoping you'd approve of this solution.
If you're changing the implementation anyway, why not move towards a more
complete solution? After all, the hashing of a value provided from JavaScript
together with the MAC address seems rather simple to implement (I'm saying this
after looking at the code that hashes the MAC address with the bundle
identifier - the challenge for me, since I'm a .NET developer and know nothing
about Objective-C, is how to write a plugin for Cordova in iOS).
I agree that this is specific for iOS, but so does FileEntry.setMetadata and
it's still in the core functionality. Rather than using device.uuid for iOS,
maybe you can create a function like device.getHashedUUID(salt) which initially
would be supported in iOS only, and later could even be implemented in all of
the platforms(using the same logic of hashing the provided value with the MAC
address)? After all, getting a secure, anonymous and most importantly a
consistent way to identify devices without compromising user's privacy seems to
be important enough to be supported by all platforms.
Do you think it would be possible to implement something like this for Cordova
1.9?
> 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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