subject: Apple Is Good, Leaked Badly. Recently, An Iphone Application On 68 Disclosure Privacy Message Is Imp [print this page] Apple is good, leaked badlyApple is good, leaked badly. Recently, an iPhone application on 68 disclosure privacy message is impact on the various professional forums. What is going on? -Hundreds of thousands of software applications, free software is a handful, regaled fans playing. However, the United States a University Deputy Director of information security and networking, network security expert Eric Smith has recently published a survey report.
The report showed that 68 of the most popular free iPhone application, will reveal the user's privacy. At present, with intelligent machines popular, users commonly used free software, privacy protection and legal issues raised there have been no clearly defined.
Is not available or not: 68 free iPhone software be disclosed privacy maybe you had a smugglers of the angry birds or free software such as landlords are outward; publication; your personal information-that is not sensational. According to Eric Smith to study found that in the iPhone app store; the most popular, and; the most popular free applications; these two types of applications, 68 of the software to send out a separate identification number (UDID), and it did not implement encryption.
In addition, 18 applications were implemented in the communication process among the encryption, so researchers could not determine whether the application send identification number. Report finds that independent identification codes; closely associated with the user's personal information;, which is likely to be hidden leaks. Smith studied a total of 57 iPhone apps, and finding information is sent in plain text, which contains a user's personal data, there is a potential security risk. It is learnt that the independent identification number is the company for each type of device using iOS system allocated identification code, these devices including iPhone (cool iPhone accessories), iPad and iPodtouch. Independent application identification number, is to prevent the application of an online shop application of software is pirated.
Other than this one: suspected private relief products also have Android software, the report also showed that many popular Android application without the user permits disclosure of personal information such as user's geographical location, phone number. At the same time, send separate identification code iPhone (accessories for iPhone) applications covers a wide spectrum of research and development companies, including Amazon, ChaseBank, Target, as well as corporate giants such as Sam's Club stores.
CBSNews developed application security breach is higher, will be sent when the user starts the program not only independent identification number, also sends the user's real name. Smith said that most iPhone (best iPhone cases) applications commercial city is collected by way of research and development for remote control of independent identification number data, some of which are true identity is the ability to receive user data. For example, Amazon's application users to log in using user name and device ID is sent in plain text, while the network listener can easily match the two.
