Good article and write up..thanks...I think you are getting closer to the truth.
Keep calm and get pwn3d
Another troubling aspect of what can be done with a massive pile of Apple UDIDs came from the security researchers at Crowdstrike - known for their recent breakthrough analysis of commercial surveillance software FinSpy (found in malware).
What Crowdstrike suggests is that (potentially) someone in a possession of large amounts of UDIDs would be able to compile malicious targeted code more easily.
The day of the UDID leak, Alex Radocea, senior engineer of Crowdstrike, made a stunning revelation:
(...) with the release of the alleged UDIDs today, if those do prove to be legitimate devices, there are now over one million targets which can be targeted using the FinSpy Ad-Hoc distribution mechanism coupled with an existing or new exploit/jailbreak.
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