> On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Joel Maher wrote:
>
>
> > I think Greg has a good point. I would be nice to include the desktop as
> > a part of the OS for a personal workstation, but having the choice of no
> > GUI is why some people choose linux.
>
> That's why layered or modular standard with optio
>
> We still use the MAC address (mostly because it's the only numbered
> component we *know* will be present), but it's definitely forgeable. It's
> just that our usual customer wouldn't know how to do it. (Plus, I'm not
> sure they'd even want to, in significant numbers. They might want mo
>
> Then they wrote VM.
>
> Which has a command to set that serial number to anything you like.
>
> And yes, I've seen it used for software that looked at the serial number
> for license purposes.
>
> I don't think it's worth it. It's far too easy to break. It's fake
> security.
>
> MfG Ka
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