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Re: Unique ID

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From: Colin B Maharaj
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 13:27
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Boy oh boy, this is something I have been looking into for a while.

Firstly you can use the mac address, then I got a link to something that 
allows cloning or changing your MAC address.

Then there is the registry. There are certain things I can look for and 
have in the past but it can be changed and may not be secure.

What I am looking at now is the "Hardware\\Description\\System" area of 
the regitry. This area in the registry is updated everytime you reboot 
your PC. Changing it may be possible, but a reboot will revert it to 
it's ORIGINAL state / values.

Not sure how to read it though, it is a MultiString(??)






Per Elms�ter wrote:
> Alan Bellingham wrote:
> 
>>"Per Elms�ter" <perelms@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Is there anything identifying a computer uniquely that I can use to
>>>determine if this is the same computer as last time I made the call.
>>
>>No.
>>
>>Anything you can think of could be replaced.
>>
>>A technique that has been chosen in the past is to identify a bunch of
>>different items (say MAC, Hard Drive IDs, and anything else visible)
>>and allow it to be the same PC if some of those are the same. This
>>still doesn't stop the building of a 'patchwork clone' by changing
>>one item at a time until none of the original parts remain.
>>
>>Alan Bellingham
> 
> 
> Maybe I should state that I'm not trying to build something absolutely
> cracksafe. I'll be happy as long as only a good cracker can get through. My
> main issue is to prevent users giving away a registered copy to their
> friends.
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