Small oops, Radi's reply was missing the CC to list. Le lundi 18 octobre 2010 à 16:31 +0100, Radi, Rami a écrit :
> I was looking actually for a system unique identifier, exactly as you > say using the IMEI on phones. > > > > Thinking that since MeeGo will in most cases run on x86 IA, this > would be something nice to add to the SDK, so that the developer > doesn’t have to worry about how to get the CPUID, etc. > > > > Plus, do you really think that getting the CPUID would be sufficient? From what I've read so far, there exist a controversy about privacy with those API. As an example, a special version of Android (TaintDroid), has been used to demonstrate that many applications can throw your phone number or IMEI over the Internet, not maliciously, but as a unique identifier. It would have been very easy for those application to hash the information prior to sending it, but I do think that having a function that will always do it right is a better solution. Now, we could create a Meego specific API, or try and generate the file /etc/hostid (or call sethostid()) with platform specific backend (IMEI/phone numbers on phones, CPUID, etc) and use gethostid(). That is unless there is other issues I'm not aware about this POSIX function. regards, Nicolas
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