Privacy issue - Don't send private data across the 'net.

Yes, this makes the meta-impy viewer non compliant with LL's TPVP, we don't care this is a viewer for the meta grid.
We care about privacy.  We have our own effective methods of implementing bans.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 21 deletions

diff --git a/linden/indra/newview/llappviewermacosx.cpp b/linden/indra/newview/llappviewermacosx.cpp
index 5496e5b..ee4648f 100644
--- a/linden/indra/newview/llappviewermacosx.cpp
+++ b/linden/indra/newview/llappviewermacosx.cpp
@@ -419,27 +419,7 @@ std::string LLAppViewerMacOSX::generateSerialNumber()
         char serial_md5[MD5HEX_STR_SIZE];               // Flawfinder: ignore
         serial_md5[0] = 0;
 
-        // JC: Sample code from http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1103.html
-        CFStringRef serialNumber = NULL;
-        io_service_t    platformExpert = IOServiceGetMatchingService(kIOMasterPortDefault,
-                                                                                                                                 IOServiceMatching("IOPlatformExpertDevice"));
-        if (platformExpert) {
-                serialNumber = (CFStringRef) IORegistryEntryCreateCFProperty(platformExpert,
-                                                                                                                                         CFSTR(kIOPlatformSerialNumberKey),
-                                                                                                                                         kCFAllocatorDefault, 0);               
-                IOObjectRelease(platformExpert);
-        }
-        
-        if (serialNumber)
-        {
-                char buffer[MAX_STRING];                // Flawfinder: ignore
-                if (CFStringGetCString(serialNumber, buffer, MAX_STRING, kCFStringEncodingASCII))
-                {
-                        LLMD5 md5( (unsigned char*)buffer );
-                        md5.hex_digest(serial_md5);
-                }
-                CFRelease(serialNumber);
-        }
+        // Don't do anything, serious privacy breach to leak internal identifying numbers out to the 'net.
 
         return serial_md5;
 }