- From: Thomas Roessler <tlr@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 14:28:44 -0700
- To: Brian LeRoux <brian@westcoastlogic.com>
- Cc: Thomas Roessler <tlr@w3.org>, Alissa Cooper <acooper@cdt.org>, W3C Device APIs and Policy WG <public-device-apis@w3.org>
On 20 May 2010, at 14:23, Brian LeRoux wrote: > Some notes from the phonegap team for consideration: > > - MAC addresses can be used to uniquely identify a network device > which we can/have/do use for some apps. I can give some specific use > cases here if neccessary. We feel this is useful in the spec and not > really a threat. I'd be interested in seeing the specific use cases. In particular: *What* is it that you really want to uniquely identify? The network interface? The user? The device? > - Also: MAC addresses can be spoofed! Yes, but that's not very likely to occur. > - IP Addresses only give a rough estimate of where a person is...and > if we don't include it can be easily retrieved with > http://whatismyipaddress.com anyhow. We should include in the spec. These may well be different addresses: The device might be behind a NAT, a proxy of sorts, or may use an anonymization service.
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