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ggabriel is offline ggabriel
2013-11-06 , 14:09
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Originally Posted by juiceme View Post
What's the deal with people being so shy to tell their IMEI in the first place...? For a normal user that's really just the device serial number. Is this part of some urban legend telling you not to disclose it ever?
Why does an application need my IMEI? Since when do you tell the SN of your computer to MS Windows for it to be installed? (or Linux or whatever you use for that matter)

This isn't about any urban legend to me, it's about common sense.

Originally Posted by juiceme View Post
Quite a lot of commercial SW uses IMEI to register the copy of the SW to a certain device.
Register where? If an application is going to open a connection to the internet to transmit my IMEI, I'd like to know it first to avoid it. If the application is going to register itself somewhere on the device, then why the IMEI?

I have never had this experience with any mobile application that I have ever used.
 

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