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Re: protecting software & uniquely identifying the machine
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Re: protecting software & uniquely identifying the machine


  • Subject: Re: protecting software & uniquely identifying the machine
  • From: Rosyna <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 13:56:31 -0700

Even some newer models do not have serial numbers. Mine does, my friends doesn't. It seems the Mac OS and it's hardware were specifically designed so there would never be a way to uniquely identify them.

http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1103.html

(As you can see, Apple will not support you if you try to uniquely identify a computer)

Ack, at 6/18/02, Marco Ippoliti said:

I understand that not every machine has a serial number (the older models don't, but this is not really an issue for me as I am more focused to later models and this information would be valuable).
Nevertheless I am ready to switch to other methods and the Mac address as somebody mentioned in the thread (I guess he was meaning the ethernet address as method to identification), also seems to me a fairly good method as all machines have one (at least all those supporting OS X).

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Sincerely,
Rosyna Keller
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Unsanity: Unsane Tools for Insanely Great People
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Please include any previous correspondence in replies, it helps me remember what we were talking about. Thanks.
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