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

[Greg Minshall]

Brian,

i'm a big proponent of autoconfiguring using ethernet addresses, as well as in 
stable IPv{4,6} addresses.

however ...

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

i wonder if you would be so quick to offer up your ethernet address if there 
existed databases of accesses to various web sites (porn, say, or employment 
agencies, or ...) keyed by ethernet address.

Greg