Re: Computer Identity and Internet Spying?
- From: Volker Birk <bumens@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 15 Jan 2006 10:07:35 +0100
cmashieldscapting@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Does a specific computer have a specific identity regardless of who is
> using it and where?
For PCs: usually not (even the MAC address of the NIC usually can be
changed easily). And this is a good idea.
Some people want to change this, for enforcing what they call DRM:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Computing_Group
But DRM only means, that Microsoft or another TCG member wants to decide,
what you can do with your computer. So this cannot be in your interest at
all.
> Could someone who was spying before on what this person was doing
> online continue spying although the computer has a new ISP and
> (supposedly) new user, because the computer itself has some identifying
> code embedded in its very vitals?
Not, if the computer was not modified (or is a computer, say with a
CPU ID, for example).
> Is a Macintosh specifically different in this regard than any other
> computer, more easy to identify, less easy, or does this work the same
> for all computers?
A Macintosh is not different here.
Yours,
VB.
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