<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 9:54 PM, Bryan Quigley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bryan.quigley@canonical.com" target="_blank">bryan.quigley@canonical.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">But what information is it carrying that is private? If it's just the<br>
best way to identify a machine, that's really what I'm after.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It is, and the fact that it's a machine identifier exactly what makes it somewhat private – similar to how many people consider MAC addresses or iPhone UDIDs to be private information.</div><div><br></div><div>Though like MAC addresses, it has its necessary uses, as long as your app doesn't broadcast it all over the internet...</div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Mantas Mikulėnas <<a href="mailto:grawity@gmail.com" target="_blank">grawity@gmail.com</a>></div></div>
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