Re: The Internet and the Law, the Economist, 13-19 January 2001

[Brian E Carpenter]

Keith Moore wrote:
...
> Also, the risk of having your machine serial number leaked to the
> net (as in stateless address autoconfiguration) is subtly different
> from the inherent risk of having a stable IP address.  One might
> quite reasonably be willing to accept the latter but not the former.

This is nothing to do with machine serial numbers; it's Ethernet addresses,
which are usually on swappable cards these days.

Mine is 004096333cf6; feel free to sell this number to the highest bidder :-)

  Brian