Comment by like_any_other

A commenter mentioned [1] that major Russian apps now all ask for permission to read a unique device ID to deanonymize users. The people that stopped Intel from adding such an ID to their CPUs had perfect foresight [2] (too bad later Intel added it anyway). But then it's not hard to guess that if you include a feature whose purpose is to attack the user, it will be used to attack the user.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/06/meta-and-yandex-are...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_III#Controversy_about_...