From: Rui Miguel Seabra (rms_at_1407.org)
Date: Thu Mar 04 2004 - 13:09:21 EST
On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 14:50 +0000, Tomas Frydrych wrote:
> There has been a preference option NoMACinUUID for those who do not
> wish to have their MAC address embeded in the documents; I just did
> not get to producing a GUI for setting. I am not sure how strong
> people feel about this as a privacy issue: if the feelings are strong
> we could make no-MAC the default, or, if the feelings are very
> strong, we could remove it altogether (I am not greatly in favour of
> the last one).
Removing it altogether seems to really be the best option, why are you
not in favor?
> Joaquine is right; from Win2k MS no longer uses MAC generated uuid's;
> they now fill the GUID bits randomly and call this 'version 4' uuid --
> there is only one problem with this, namely, it is not an uuid, it is
> a random number.
So?
Rui
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