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Subject: Re: [motm] A very BAD day

From: The Old Crow <oldcrow@...>
Date: 2000-05-16

On Fri, 12 May 2000, Paul Schreiber wrote:

> a) having to run TCP/IP even if you are NOT on a network!

Does it require the presence of a network card? A popular
"unique-machine ID" method is to use a network card's MAC address and hash
something based on it. Of course one can change a MAC address if they
know what they're doing (and don't try to actually use it on a
network), heh heh heh...

It is in the same league as a typical Sun's nvram machine serial number.

Crow

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