How to obtain serial number in linux

[Dan Williams]

On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 13:48 +0800, David Woodhouse wrote:
> 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.

Good point, MAC address is available to anyone AFAIK.  It's also a nice
way of getting a constant UID (after hashing it of course).

Dan