SecureUDID Is An Open Source Solution To The Apple UDID Problem. As we reported this weekend, Apple has started ramping up its efforts to deprecate the UDID – the unique identifier that ties a user to a specific device, like an iPhone or iPad.
The company originally announced its intentions to phase out the UDID’s use more than six months ago, with the release of iOS 5, but it recently began to reject apps from the App Store which are attempting to access those identifiers. Today, the makers of a crash-reporting solution for mobile developers, Crashlytics, is launching an open source alternative to the UDID called SecureUDID, which it believes will address the privacy concerns surrounding UDID usage. To catch you up on the UDID situation, if you’re unaware, Crashlytics co-founder Jeff Seibert explains that Apple likely never guessed at how prevalent – and yes, unrestricted - its usage would become in the future.
“When Apple rolled out the original iPhone, they really had no intention of [UDIDs] becoming a security problem. UPDATE (Wed. A Crashlytics Innovation. Crashlytics/secureudid.