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Matt Blaze, on Twitter:

@mattblaze: So, instead of being tightly held data given to the FBI by Apple, UDIDs are widely available to random app developers you've never heard of.

@mattblaze: And thanks to Anonymous, if the FBI didn't have that list of UDIDs before, they do now.

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Matt always has a great perspective on these things. At one of his talks I attended he commented on the difference between the 'security' business and the 'intelligence' business and noted that they both depended heavily on obfuscation and misdirection. Prior to that I had never really connected them in that way, but in hindsight it seemed amazingly obvious. Interesting times indeed.

Matt Blaze is probably the most important computer scientist at the intersection of security & privacy; look at the relatively recent work his group did on wiretaps for a good example of why. He's not a grandstander.

I'm laughing my head off at all of those Apple haters and conspiracy theorists right now over the collective brain explosions when facts come out that Apple wasn't colluding with the government.

That's just what they want you to believe!!!

Typical government cover-up!

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