How to obtain serial number in linux

[Aaron Kaplan]

On Jun 21, 2007, at 8:25 PM, Ivan Krstić wrote:

> Dan Williams wrote:
>> Good point, MAC address is available to anyone AFAIK.
>
> The OLPC security working group has been investigating randomizing the
> MAC address on a rolling schedule -- something along the general lines
> of the IPv6 privacy extensions, but lower in the stack. Michail didn't
> think it'd be much of a problem.
>
> The reason it's worth serious consideration in our case is the Marvell
> chip; it's an unpleasant idea that even after you power off your  
> laptop,
> it's still leaking its (your) identity to anything in wifi range  
> that cares.
>


I definitely would recommend One Tinfoil hat Per Marvell chip!

;-)
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