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Add Tracking Re-Installation with ANDROID_ID #8

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emanuelb opened this issue Jun 1, 2021 · 1 comment
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Add Tracking Re-Installation with ANDROID_ID #8

emanuelb opened this issue Jun 1, 2021 · 1 comment
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emanuelb commented Jun 1, 2021

More details:
https://twitter.com/RichFelker/status/1331481122316881922
https://twitter.com/RichFelker/status/1331482857957691392

The malicious part is that it persists across uninstall

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/Settings.Secure.html#ANDROID_ID

GrapheneOS (and maybe other ROMs) might change the OS to protect against it:
GrapheneOS/os-issue-tracker#395

This is another privacy glitch/leak that require no permissions to abuse.
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This is really cool! I didn't know about this one. Thank you! Will work on adding this to the app soon :)

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