----- 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! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.