After reading about the FBI hacked iPhone accounts I had to check and see if I was one of the people who was leaked. I am, but I am wondering now if that's really true.Is it possible that anyone with a valid UDID will find encoded in that ID the name of their iPhone which is what is being displayed on the "see if it's happened to you too" sites? Prehaps all iPhone users are included in the supposed leaked 1 million accounts on the internet, simply because a valid UDID is decoded by the website thus giving you the impression that they know something about you, when in fact you just gave them that information to feed back to you at the bottom of the site. Make sense?
Added (1). Yes every iPhone has a unique UDID but is it possible that the name of your phone is embedded into the UDID? It's a 20 digit alpha numeric, which in my opinion could quite possibly contain the name of my phone encoded in that series of letters and numbers. Maybe it's just possible that the sites aren't databases but instead decripters which are designed to decode the UDID, reveal my iPhone name, display the name on the site, which of course fools me into thinking the FBI has had this information all along, when in fact I just in essence gave them that info. If the UDID is set at the factory and is never changed, then my theory is wrong, but that's what I'm trying to get to the bottom of here.
Added (2). Yes every iPhone has a unique UDID but is it possible that the name of your phone is embedded into the UDID? It's a 20 digit alpha numeric, which in my opinion could quite possibly contain the name of my phone encoded in that series of letters and numbers. Maybe it's just possible that the sites aren't databases but instead decripters which are designed to decode the UDID, reveal my iPhone name, display the name on the site, which of course fools me into thinking the FBI has had this information all along, when in fact I just in essence gave them that info. If the UDID is set at the factory and is never changed, then my theory is wrong, but that's what I'm trying to get to the bottom of here.
Added (3). Yes every iPhone has a unique UDID but is it possible that the name of your phone is embedded into the UDID? It's a 20 digit alpha numeric, which in my opinion could quite possibly contain the name of my phone encoded in that series of letters and numbers. Maybe it's just possible that the sites aren't databases but instead decripters which are designed to decode the UDID, reveal my iPhone name, display the name on the site, which of course fools me into thinking the FBI has had this information all along, when in fact I just in essence gave them that info. If the UDID is set at the factory and is never changed, then my theory is wrong, but that's what I'm trying to get to the bottom of here.
>>> Does the UDID have the iPhone name encoded into the ID?