On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 13:48 +0800, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 00:50 -0400, Ivan Krstić wrote: > > David Woodhouse wrote: > > > I remember a lot of noise and pointless paranoia, but no actual _mess_. > > > > A lot of noise and pointless paranoia over something with no practical > > benefits and plenty of abuse potential sure as hell qualifies as a mess > > in my book. There was a tremendous amount of consumer and media backlash > > including a request for a formal FTC investigation. > > Well, it was an Intel chip. Of _course_ it was a mess :) > > But 'consumer and media backlash' happens over a lot of pointless and > irrelevant things, while simultaneously _not_ happening in other > situations where it really should. Media fuss isn't really a good metric > of anything but media fuss. > > Are we going to hide MAC addresses too? I've heard some of the tinfoil > hat contingent witter about how those could lead the black helicopters > to you too¹.
Good point, MAC address is available to anyone AFAIK. It's also a nice way of getting a constant UID (after hashing it of course). Dan _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
