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Re: System serial number


  • Subject: Re: System serial number
  • From: Jeff Harrell <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 11:51:57 -0500

On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at 11:20 AM, Tim Ramsey wrote:

Trusting the progammatically reported serial number seems more perilous all the time.

I don't know if this is true of Macs, but in many cases Ethernet adapters can be programmed with a different MAC address. So that's not a useful unique serial number either, at least not universally.

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