On 01/04/2014 04:23 AM, Adrian Custer wrote:
> On 1/4/14, 9:29 AM, Alexandre Lissy wrote:
>> Le 04/01/2014 12:24, Adrian Custer a écrit :
>>> Hey all,
>>>
>>> Does Firefox OS provide any way to uniquely identify a device?
>>> Is this possible both at the UNIX level ('adb shell') and from within
>>> app code (with suitable permission)?
>>
>> What do you exactly want to do ?
>
> At the lowest level, I want to use adb to query the connected device(s)
> to obtain a unique identifier for that device. That way I can make a
> backup directory that has an appropriate unique identifier even when a
> hacker has multiple devices in hand.
>
> While working on this, I realized that the issue was more general and
> would eventually be faced by Firefox OS Web App authors so that we
> therefore needed either an appropriate answer or a bug for future work.
> It sounds like the bug is needed since the 'certified app only'
> limitation will be an issue.
Playing devil's advocate: if you want to backup your device, you have
root access. And then you can generate a uuid on the host, push it to
the target to a known location on first run and reuse it later. Am I
missing something?
Exposing that to the web is a totally different game. There are already
many ways to track users, that would be nice to not add another one.
Fabrice
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Fabrice Desré
b2g team
Mozilla Corporation
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