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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Updates
    • Telemetry uses a pseudonymous machine identifier: a hash of a valid network adapter address, or a locally stored random identifier when no valid address is available. Raw network addresses are not sent or stored.
    • Telemetry is sent only when enabled, a connection is available, the runtime is not in development or automated-test mode, and a persistent identifier can be created.
    • Telemetry notices now describe the identifier and count active machines rather than installations. The notice is shown once per disclosure version.

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Telemetry reporting now uses a machine identity derived from a valid hardware address or a persisted UUID fallback. Reporting also requires a production runtime and a persistent identity. Event tags and common properties include the machine identity and its source.

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Telemetry machine identity

Layer / File(s) Summary
Resolve and persist machine identity
bundles/com.espressif.idf.core/src/com/espressif/idf/core/telemetry/TelemetryMachineIdentity.java, tests/com.espressif.idf.core.test/src/com/espressif/idf/core/telemetry/test/TelemetryMachineIdentityTest.java
The identity resolver selects the first valid hardware address and hashes it, or reads or creates a UUID fallback. It marks the identity ephemeral if persistence fails. Tests cover address selection, fallback reuse and repair, and persistence failure.
Gate and tag telemetry
bundles/com.espressif.idf.core/src/com/espressif/idf/core/telemetry/TelemetryService.java, bundles/com.espressif.idf.core/src/com/espressif/idf/core/telemetry/TelemetryPreferences.java, tests/com.espressif.idf.core.test/src/com/espressif/idf/core/telemetry/test/TelemetrySessionIntervalTest.java
Telemetry requires a production runtime, permitted preferences, an available connection, and a persistent machine identity. Event tags and common properties include identity data. The installation ID preference and accessor are removed, and notice state is stored as a disclosure version. Tests cover identity handling and production-runtime conditions.
Update telemetry disclosures
bundles/com.espressif.idf.ui/src/com/espressif/idf/ui/TelemetryNotice.java, bundles/com.espressif.idf.ui/src/com/espressif/idf/ui/TelemetryStartup.java, bundles/com.espressif.idf.ui/src/com/espressif/idf/ui/messages*.properties, bundles/com.espressif.idf.ui/src/com/espressif/idf/ui/preferences/messages*.properties, docs/en/telemetry.rst, docs/zh_CN/telemetry.rst
The notices, preference text, and documentation describe pseudonymous machine identifiers and their sources. They also state that telemetry is not sent when the fallback identity cannot be persisted or when the runtime is for development or automated tests.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant TelemetryService
  participant TelemetryMachineIdentity
  participant NetworkInterface
  participant FallbackFile
  participant HTTPClient
  TelemetryService->>TelemetryMachineIdentity: Retrieve machine identity
  TelemetryMachineIdentity->>NetworkInterface: Enumerate hardware addresses
  NetworkInterface-->>TelemetryMachineIdentity: Return hardware addresses
  TelemetryMachineIdentity->>FallbackFile: Read or persist UUID when no valid address is available
  FallbackFile-->>TelemetryMachineIdentity: Return stored or newly persisted UUID
  TelemetryMachineIdentity-->>TelemetryService: Return identity and source
  TelemetryService->>HTTPClient: Send event with machine identity properties
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 25288

Some machines may share a telemetry identity, and telemetry can send the new identifier before the revised notice appears. Resolve these risks before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 25288

A machine-linked identifier enables broader correlation than the previous installation identifier. Reporting can also proceed before the revised notice is displayed, or after an opt-out when a report was already queued. Existing opt-out and reporting controls limit, but do not eliminate, that exposure.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: The unsalted MAC-derived identifier expands correlation from an installation to any installations or users that select the same hardware address. A party with access to reported identifiers could also test a known candidate MAC against its hash.
  • Medium · security · inferred: The revised disclosure is not a pre-report gate. A startup report can be queued while the notice awaits display, and a queued report can still send after the user opts out; either path can expose the newly machine-linked identifier.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — Where multiple installations select the same physical or virtual MAC, their reports carry the same machine identifier. The demonstrated exposure is to the telemetry receiver and parties able to access its event data; downstream access and retention were not established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — A party that knows a candidate MAC and can access event identifiers can hash that candidate for comparison; SHA-256 here conceals the raw value in transit but does not prevent such matching.
  • inferred — A report queued while telemetry is enabled can reach send after the notice's disable action: the queue executes later, while send checks connection and identity persistence rather than the current opt-out. The queueing behavior existed before this PR, but the payload now contains the machine identifier.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Entry into reporting checks production runtime, the preference and disabling overrides, and connection availability. Sending rejects an ephemeral fallback identity before building the HTTP payload.
  • observed — Notice acknowledgement controls whether the UI attempts to show the disclosure, not whether reports may be sent. The notice version is recorded before asynchronous display, which can be abandoned if the display is disposed.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Fallback writes are locked and verified, and failure prevents transmission rather than emitting a transient identifier. The service's identity cache limits recovery from a transient persistence failure to a later service instance.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Decide and document the permitted cross-installation correlation scope. If machine-wide linkage is not required, retain a random identity; otherwise assess receiver access and retention against the ability to match known MACs.
  • proposed — If the revised disclosure must precede machine-identity reporting, make that ordering an explicit reporting precondition, record notice state after actual display, and recheck opt-out when queued work sends.
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`@bundles/com.espressif.idf.core/src/com/espressif/idf/core/telemetry/TelemetryMachineIdentity.java`:
- Around line 121-124: Update formatMacAddress to reject addresses that are all
zero at any length and the known eight-byte tunnel-adapter sentinel, while
continuing to accept other valid lengths such as unique EUI-64 addresses. Add a
regression test through fromHardwareAddresses that puts the sentinel before
VALID_MAC and verifies the identity uses VALID_MAC_HASH.

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`@bundles/com.espressif.idf.core/src/com/espressif/idf/core/telemetry/TelemetryService.java`:
- Around line 261-265: Update the English and Chinese telemetry documentation
and preference text to disclose that the persistent pseudonymous identifier may
be derived from a valid MAC address or a persisted random UUID; remove claims
that telemetry is anonymous or the identifier is not derived from machine
attributes. Update the notice-state version or reset `telemetryNoticeShown` so
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- Line 109: Update TelemetryStartup.earlyStartup() so reportSessionStart() is
deferred when TelemetryNotice.showIfNeeded() queues the revised notice, and
invoke it from the notice callback after the notice opens; preserve the existing
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