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>                     Smith discovered that Excel and Word
>                     applications fingerprint files with an
>                     identifying number. That number is used
>                     by the hardware that connects a PC to a
>                     local area network. The 32-digit numbers
>                     were designed long ago by developers of
>                     networking hardware to identify individual
>                     machines.

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Sounds an aweful lot like Intel's new PSN crap.  The thing I don't get,
though, is that not everyone has a network card, PPP adapter, <choke>
AOL adapter, etc...  So there is *not* an adapter address from which to
get the number inside every machine.  That and the article says to get
the number from within winipcfg in the adapter address field, which is
obviously NOT a 32-digit number (it's not even a 32-*bit* number, it's
48-bit, so it's not like it's a typo or something).

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