On 11-Sep-00, Fred Wright wrote:
> The PC puts its MAC address *everywhere*, since that's the primary method
> Microsoft uses to identify the machine and detect cases where the same
> serial number of the software is installed on multiple computers. For
> example, every Word document contains this information.
Unless the Ethernet is built into the MoBo, I fail to see how they could
prove anything by that technique. I guess thats why thier buddies at
intel tried to put a serial in the CPU. :P
I guess I'll begin a policy of swapping all the ethernet cards around on
our machines at work during their PM's. That oughtta keep 'em on thier
toes. ;)
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