Re: Machine serial number
Re: Machine serial number
- Subject: Re: Machine serial number
- From: Rosyna <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 05:32:15 -0700
From the technote given earlier:
DTS does not support copy protection because of the significant
compatibility liabilities it involves.
This and other things make me to believe that macs were designed to
have no copy protection at all. There is nothing globally unique
about them. The serial number does not exist on all Machines and may
be removed. The MAC Address may be changed with software. Your best
bet is to use a combination of many things (but not so many that its
hard for the user to upgrade his system) The article gives some very
good examples of things you can use.
Ack, at 9/24/01, Nathan V. Roberts said:
It will be a seed for software registration; so I'm after something
that's fairly immutable with the machine. I posted this question on
the Java list, actually asking for the MAC address specifically, and
various people pointed out issues with that: plurality is possible,
many people have removable NICs in laptops, and with gigabit
ethernet getting cheap, many people will be upgrading... On the
Macintosh, of course, these may be less of an issue, because AFAIK
all Macs that support OS X have on-board Ethernet, and there may be
a way to access the on-board one (as opposed to the active one,
which might be removable, etc.) in particular.
But it would be better still if I could get at Apple's serial
number; that seems more designed for this sort of purpose. The
Windows (pure or near-pure Java) version will ship later, and we
will probably need to address registration there differently.
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Sincerely,
Rosyna Keller
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