On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, you wrote:
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, George Toft wrote:
Mark B Withers wrote:
Boycot Intel Pentium III http://www.bigbrotherinside.com/
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Many people are concerned about the processor serial number in the Pentium ///, but what about the MAC address inside every NIC? For an interesting walk down Windows Security Lane, head on over to www.grc.com and let him read your MAC address (N/A Linux).
The brief discussion at http://www.bigbrotherinside.com on MAC addresses may have been valid three years ago, but is rapidly becoming obsolete. Cable modems and DSL are more and more commonplace. In my office alone, half of us have cable and the other half are on dial-up ISP's. This indicates half of us (in the U.S.) can be tracked via MAC address regardless of processor.
Fortunatly, my stealth firewall scripts eliminate that little problem. And Linux is spreading one by one as I set up Linux-based firewalls.
-- George Toft http://www.georgetoft.com
Fortunately they are easy to change. A recent thread on FreeBSD -questions list discussed this thoroughly.
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