Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 23:29:51 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> Cc: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>, Xiao-Yong Jin <xj2106@columbia.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, User Freebsd <freebsd@hub.org> Subject: Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there? Message-ID: <001c01c6b5fd$110436c0$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> References: <20060728164526.E27679@ganymede.hub.org><44CDE02F.4090604@dial.pipex.com><44CE7DD0.9070902@childeric.freeserve.co.uk><871ws1v261.fsf@photon.homelinux.org><20060731220830.B27679@ganymede.hub.org><ef10de9a0608010121j154c7ael7ece0997a479572e@mail.gmail.com><20060801120058.O27679@ganymede.hub.org><17615.30414.314802.792740@jerusalem.litteratus.org><20060801131123.Y27679@ganymede.hub.org><002401c6b5a3$de991970$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> <ef10de9a0608011312y3e80276ck93facc84802ab9d5@mail.gmail.com>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: "Robert Huff" <roberthuff@rcn.com>; "Xiao-Yong Jin" <xj2106@columbia.edu>; <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; "User Freebsd" <freebsd@hub.org> Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 1:12 PM Subject: Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there? > On 8/1/06, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> wrote: > > Why not just add in the patch in kern/65627 and run the CPU serial number > > through > > your hash? > > Because you can still fake the dam thing, Why fake it when you can merely not supply it in the first place? There are valid uses for unique host ID's other than this marketing reporting scheme. I was merely pointing out to the OP that it is not particularly difficult (as he was arguing) to get unique ID's out of a FreeBSD system, I was not commenting on the scheme he wanted them for. Ted
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