Theodore Tso wrote:
On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 11:33:57AM -0600, Mike McGrath wrote:We actually had a very vocal minority about all of that which ended up putting us in the unfortunate position of generating a random UUID instead of using a hardware UUID from hal :-/Huh? What's the concern? All you are submitting is a list of hardware devices in your system. That's hardly anything sensitive....Tinfoil hat responses indeed! Ok, if those folks are really that crazy, my suggestion then would be to do a "ifconfig -a > /dev/random"
heh, along those lines you could also do dmesg > /dev/random <grin>dmesg often has machine-unique identifiers of all sorts (including the MAC address, if you have an ethernet driver loaded)
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