Re: [patch] PIII/Katmai & FXSAVE support, disable serial-#, 2.2.2

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Thu, 4 Mar 1999 14:40:32 -0500 (EST)


On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Mailing lists wrote:

> It's silly to count all devices which have software accessable
> serial number. No one of this can't be 100% reliable used to identify
> your machine like PIII psn just because all of it not obligatory. You
And PIII *is* obligatory?
> can not using DDC monitor, or ethernet card, or IDE disk and so on.
> So it's impossible to include such possibility to web browser, but
Then don't use browsers you don't trust. Period. Or filter the
outgoing requests through trusted proxy. It's not a rocket science.
Case closed.

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