How to obtain serial number in linux

[David Woodhouse]

On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 00:50 -0400, Ivan Krstić wrote:
> David Woodhouse wrote:
> > I remember a lot of noise and pointless paranoia, but no actual _mess_.
> 
> A lot of noise and pointless paranoia over something with no practical
> benefits and plenty of abuse potential sure as hell qualifies as a mess
> in my book. There was a tremendous amount of consumer and media backlash
> including a request for a formal FTC investigation.

Well, it was an Intel chip. Of _course_ it was a mess :)

But 'consumer and media backlash' happens over a lot of pointless and
irrelevant things, while simultaneously _not_ happening in other
situations where it really should. Media fuss isn't really a good metric
of anything but media fuss.

Are we going to hide MAC addresses too? I've heard some of the tinfoil
hat contingent witter about how those could lead the black helicopters
to you too¹.

-- 
dwmw2

¹ I offer http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/OrbitalLaserFiringNeeded
  as a challenge to those who believe that particular crap, btw.