From: Petr Tomasek (tomasek_at_etf.cuni.cz)
Date: Thu Mar 04 2004 - 14:04:01 EST
On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 06:09:21PM +0000, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
> 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?
So it could happen that there would be two documents with the same uuid,
so it won't be unique....
> Rui
>
-- Petr Tomasek, http://www.etf.cuni.cz/~tomasek/
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