https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37003

Mark A. Hershberger <[email protected]> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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           Priority|Unprioritized               |Normal
             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |[email protected]
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX

--- Comment #1 from Mark A. Hershberger <[email protected]> 2012-05-21 
17:27:35 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #0)
> in many websites or forums they have tools that check computer serial number
> such as hard drive or motherboard serial number and they block user by that
> serial or similar ways to improve weakness of block tool.

I think you're talking about using cookies to block users -- but then people
could just delete the cookie to get past the block.  This would work to a
certain degree, but would have no affect on the determined malicious person.

I am unaware of any way to find a way of identifying a computer uniquely aside
from using cookies.

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