By Brian X. Chen
The unique string of numbers and letters assigned to your iPhone can potentially expose your real-life identity. Security researcher Aldo Cortesi last week published his discovery of a flaw in the unique device identifier (UDID) stored on each iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. While this device identifier is well-known, it’s not supposed to be connected to a person’s actual identity. But Cortesi discovered that some apps can link the identifier to the phone owner’s Facebook profile, which effectively puts a face behind that string of numbers and letters...[continued]
