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Re: It's amazing....
This already exists in a way, each network device has a unique MAC address.
1. It can be forged/modified
2. It only lives between the first hop. So hard to track.
Fixing #2 would require a massive undertaking in changing how TCP/IP works... and cost way more than anyone would even invest. |
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| said by raccettura  :This already exists in a way, each network device has a unique MAC address. 1. It can be forged/modified I was thinking about an encrypted serial number that couldn't be forged.
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| said by GOLFnSUN :I was thinking about an encrypted serial number that couldn't be forged. Sadly (or for the better), that's an illusion of wishful thinking.
Conceivably, that "serial number" should already exist in the form of a mac address, but even that isn't worth anything, at all.
As long as the user controls the product, there will remain a way for it to be tampered with, period.
The day that simple fact of logic becomes false is the day I throw my computer away, lock myself inside, and sigh myself into a catatonic state, because that day, freedom of speech and anonymity is truly dead.
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There isn't anything that can't be forged. |
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| said by Stumbles :There isn't anything that can't be forged. That is true. But you can make it very hard to do for the vast majority of users. That is the game that law enforcement plays all the time.
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Ask yourself this question. If you pass these laws you want (i.e. require everyone to have a monitored, licensed connection to the internet, where your entire history, every post, every site you visit, every e-mail is recorded. Ask yourself if you'd feel comfortable with that law if you knew that I would be in charge of it. You know, of course, that I would use the law to have the secret police arrest you, for your seditious postings.
The constitution exists to protect us. Freedom of speech CANNOT be assured if everyone has to register to speak. So, pass your 'save the children' laws, but don't be suprised when the men in black come for YOU.
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said by GOLFnSUN :said by raccettura :This already exists in a way, each network device has a unique MAC address. 1. It can be forged/modified I was thinking about an encrypted serial number that couldn't be forged. Hah... Anything that has a software component can always be changed. Get used to it. And, no matter how hard you try to make it, that difficulty will only last for a VERY short while. There's a joy in breaking protections and there's a joy in making it so others can break protections easily so that the protection is utterly destroyed.
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