[opendtv] Re: Twang's Tuesday Tribune (Mark's Monday Memo)
- From: "John Golitsis" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 11:33:14 -0400
----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig Birkmaier" <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> I was only partly being facetious. Implanted IDs will only uniquely
> identify individuals, not the devices that they own, and wish to
> control via the Internet.
Uh, pretty obvious to me. Pick up a device, it reads your ID, and 'binds'
itself to you while you're using it.
> >Until then, use PKI, smartcards, your Intel Pentium ID, or any other
> >tamper-proof device or cryptographic algorithm to target receivers.
>
> So bottom line, you are suggesting unique hardware IDs.
With existing technology that doesn't require a coordinated worldwide effort
that will likely get 'bastardized' anyway, as the MAC situation has
demonstrated. With that said, the MAC situation isn't nearly as bad as Kon and
I may have made it sound...it's just not absolutely guaranteed that a MAC
address is unique, but the odds of ending up with 2 identical addresses on the
same physical network is likely astronomical...but it happened to me!
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