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Re: Microsoft and MACs

To: nicholas@petreley.com
Subject: Re: Microsoft and MACs
From: "Marty Leisner" <leisner@rochester.rr.com>
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 09:13:18 -0500
cc: Multiple recipients of list AM-INFO <am-info@essential.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 08 Mar 1999 19:22:30 EST." <36E44FA8.B6692397@petreley.com>
Reply-to: leisner@rochester.rr.com

> Re: the Microsoft secret user database: 
> 
> Has anyone explored why Microsoft would want to tie user data 
> to network MAC addresses?  Why would anyone want a MAC address
> except to sniff or spoof network packets?  
> 
> -Nick
> 
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Actually this is a fairly common software technique to get a machine
unique number...

Why I don't quite understand...

I guess it goes away if you use RTF documents?


Marty Leisner

References:
- Microsoft and MACs
  - From: Nicholas Petreley <nicholas@petreley.com>

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