On 10/05/2016 09:01 PM, George Michaelson wrote: > As an example the IEEE MAC registry is really only to provide > uniqueness, but its been demonstrated to act as a passive-capture > mechanism to identify probable host architecture from on-the-wire > sniffs. This then leads directly to: "If its a Dell, then I know the > iDrac default password so I can attempt to see if this is a badly > configured Dell which has iDrac IPMI on the host address" and like > attacks. > > Unique identifiers are being used by the cellular provider to offer > price differentiated service to people on the same basic substrate. > Which is a poshed-up way of saying you can get a SIM which is dataplan > for an iPad but if you put it in your phone you are in breach of > contract over the use of that SIM. I am not personally a fan of this > legalism, but it is legal, and it is an ism. > > I think there is a fundamental tension between baked in uniqueness, > probabalistic uniqueness (think ULA) and non-unique state in Layer-2 > and Layer-3
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