On 7/31/13 at 8:35 AM, bren...@mozilla.com (Brendan Eich) wrote:
uuidgen implementations have used MAC addresses in the past, which I believe
led to a public collision.
In 1998 we (Electric Communities) discovered that people using
AOL software to access the internet were all assigned the same
MAC address. Using timing of UI events is much better.
Cheers - Bill
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