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notlisted on Sept 4, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: AntiSec leaks 1,000,001 Apple UDIDs, Device Names/...

Hmmm, it seems that despite removal of the personal info, there may be ways to link it back to partial profiles via OpenFeint... http://corte.si/posts/security/openfeint-udid-deanonymizatio...

also: http://corte.si/posts/security/udid-must-die/index.html

arn on Sept 4, 2012 [–]

Yep... well, based on this, I was able to fill in a UDID from the file and pull back an openfeint result. It didn't pull any sensitive information, but it worked. so seems to be real udids.

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