How much did the FBI pay them to say that?
E-publisher 'fesses up: 'Apple UDIDs were ours'
It seems both Apple and the FBI were telling the truth: the Apple UDIDs published last week didn’t come from either organization, with an American e-publisher posting a statement that the data was stolen from its systems. The five-year-old BlueToad, based in Orlando, Florida, says the UDIDs that were posted to Pastebin matched …
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Monday 10th September 2012 22:34 GMT Turtle
Discontinued.
"The publisher says it has discontinued the collection and reporting of UDIDs."
If it is possible for them to conduct business without collecting UDIDs, then why were they collecting them in to begin with?
Aside from the usual idea of there being penalties for not protecting user data, there should be more severe penalties for not protecting user data that was not needed in the first place.
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Monday 10th September 2012 22:48 GMT Aaron Em
Probably debug logs
It's awfully useful to be able, when some random user calls and complains about "this happened, then this happened, then it caught on fire and screamed demonically while shooting rubber bands at my cat", to be able to tie that problem report unambiguously to a set of log entries saying "this happened, then this happened, then the user totally fucked up".
Using UDIDs to do said tying might not have been the best idea. On the other hand, this being a "privacy violation" on the same tempest-in-a-tiny-teapot level as most others we've heard about here and everywhere else, I fail to see why anyone should really give a damn.
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Tuesday 11th September 2012 04:04 GMT Fred Flintstone
Re: Discontinued.
If it is possible for them to conduct business without collecting UDIDs, then why were they collecting them in to begin with?
Because they maybe are not in a nation that has any sensible and/or enforced Data Protection laws? Just guessing.. This is a *CLASSIC* example of how collecting too much data creates risks for those whose data it is. Are you listening, intercept promoting politicians?
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Tuesday 11th September 2012 12:56 GMT Anonymous Coward
Seems to be a legit company.
http://www.sunbiz.org/scripts/cordet.exe?action=DETFIL&inq_doc_number=P07000054350&inq_came_from=NAMFWD&cor_web_names_seq_number=0000&names_name_ind=&names_cor_number=&names_name_seq=&names_name_ind=&names_comp_name=BLUETOAD&names_filing_type=">SunBiz Listing for BlueToad Inc.
Doesn't mean they were paid off for an undisclosed sum of money ;-)