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| Re: It's amazing.... said by TKJunkMail :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.
-tom -- "Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficial. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding." -Louis D Brandeis |