On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 08:58:28 -0400, [email protected] wrote: > Ben Mendis, you are missing my points. Regardless whether a > product, such as software, ebook, video, etc. are purchased with > DRM, the two UUIDs of TPM and the PSN are visible online to > websites... > > Though Apple's policy is to prohibit reading UUIDs, Apple's apps do > read them and sell them. "An examination of 101 popular smartphone > "apps"—games and other software applications for iPhone and Android > phones—showed that 56 transmitted the phone's unique device ID to > other companies without users' awareness or consent... > > http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240527487046940045760200837035 > 74602.html > > Many apps written for smartphones are also written for tablets and > PCs. They read the UUIDs of computers and sell this information.
Wouldn't, say, a free-software distribution that respected the user's privacy and didn't broadcast or resell these IDs work around the problem pretty effectively? Nick
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