Keith Moore wrote:
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Also, the risk of having your machine serial number leaked to the
net (as in stateless address autoconfiguration) is subtly different
from the inherent risk of having a stable IP address. One might
quite reasonably be willing to accept the latter but not the former.
This is nothing to do with machine serial numbers; it's Ethernet addresses,
which are usually on swappable cards these days.
Mine is 004096333cf6; feel free to sell this number to the highest bidder :-)
Brian