Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Oct 1999 03:13:01 -0400 (EDT) | From | James R Bruce <> | Subject | Re: FW: pIII Serial (or lack there-of) |
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> The paranoia over whether your app reads a real serial number > or a pretend one, would probably put off some people from > using it.
That's why I wasn't very impressed by Intel's addition of it in the first place. It is inherently fakeable; if not in a mainstream kernel, at least as a very trivial patch. The only thing that can trust it is the kernel, which doesn't currently have much use for it.
Perhaps it should be printed out during bootup and then ignored. Now that I think of it, it seems no more helpful than using an ethernet HW address locally.
- Jim Bruce
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