[Android Apps and Games] zelendel:
Mind you my mod hat is off at this time. I am just a normal (maybe a little more then many) phone geek. All my views are mine and mine alone. (outside of XDA or the moderation team) just want to make this clear.

You must not pay much attention to the tech world outside your device. Attacks happen everyday to everyone. Every country, nation, city, state what ever. Everyone gets them. Where they come from is what is important. Now I am not saying anyone is innocent. So let's put that to rest right now.

Now most cyber attacks come from a select few places in the world. China, Russia, Cuba, US and North Korea.

Now let's look at the countries and their governments. (not gonna spell it out for you. Time to educate yourself and do some research.) I'll break them down in a short list.

You have the baby of the group the US. Loud mouths with big guns pushing their weight around.

You have Russia. Known super power with a superiority complex.

Hope I don't have to explain Cuba. Their drug trade pays for most governments in the world. Been a puppet for both the US and Russia

North Korea. What can I say really. This is the one place I have not been. Their government is messed up. (my opinion nothing more)

Now we get to China. A country divided. Some are democratic yet behind the scenes they are still run mostly by their military. Say what you will, but the great firewall of china and the fact that monitoring software are both normal and accepted says it all.

Now you have a country that has a history of honor being a huge thing yet openly show the lack of it by coping everyone they can and hiding behind their closed wall as not to play by the same rules everyone else does. Your copyright? Doesn't mean anything unless you are Chinese and live in China. Just ask Microsoft, Google or anyone else that has to deal with pirates on a massive scale.

Now this next question can be a matter of where you live.

So now who would you trust given what they show?

Me? I know the NSA monitors me. Hell it's what we pay them to do. (may have made sure of it lol) does it bother me? No not really. They already have all the info anyway. I mean really, We number our own people to keep track of them. Sound familiar?

Now when someone from another country (I don't care who it is) decides they want to invade my privacy well then that is when I have a problem. And given past histories, yes China is seen by a huge issue. Mainly when China based companies are blocked time and time again for security reasons. Check it out. Even the home of Bollywood, has blocked a company or two in their time.

Now the cause for this rant. You IMEI. This is like your devices Social Security number. They are supposed to be unique for every device as set by the Fcc for the cell phone cloning act.

Say I'm the dev of this app and up to nothing good. I release this app and start collecting the IMEI of each device. Then after I have a good amount. I sell that list off. Now that list contains the IMEI of everyone here that has used it. They go from my hands to the hands of terrorist group so they can clone another devices IMEI. So when they go to track the IMEI. Guess who they are following. Now a smart assassin would separate the numbers by location. So when you do use it. They are tracking someone close by. Confuses the networks. Now instead of watching someone that could be a danger everyone's time and money are spent watching a phone geek or playing yo yo back and forth.

Or they blacklist a bunch of IMEI known to belong to known terrorist yet it is a cloned IMEI and you lose yours as well. This is less likely at the moment as there is no world wide Blacklist option yet. But it is coming.

Now I ask you this. Many root options have come and gone over the years. Yet none of the major ones ever have needed your IMEI and did it while on Many devices.

Want to track statistics? You can get a serial number that will tell you everything you need to know.

So sue me if something sets off red flags.

I am not saying that anything is wrong, but I will not take random explanations either.

Not when it comes from something that is very dangerous. As an example While working with SU and binaries a while back (happened again recently with a another team) there was a way that root was auto granted, without user notification or logging.

All this app is claiming is that it scours the Internet for the best rooting option. Yeah that seems safe.