🚀 go-pugleaf

Andy Harrison wrote:

> <SNIP>
>
> >                     Smith discovered that Excel and Word
> >                     applications fingerprint files with an
> >                     identifying number.
>
> Sounds an aweful lot like Intel's new PSN crap.

Exactly.

>  The thing I don't get,
> though, is that not everyone has a network card

Microsoft programmers are taught to always assign a "reasonable default".
This is probably a random number if there is no net card. In practice it's

almost the same, since that number would be common to lots of cookies
and tied to an IP. It's still bad.

> 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).
>
> --
>
>           .==,_
>          .===,_`\                                Andy Harrison
>        .====,_ ` \      .====,__
>  ---     .==-,`~. \           `:`.__,     __
>   ---      `~~=-.  \           /^^^      / /    __  _  _  _  _ __  __
>     ---       `~~=. \         /         / /__  / / / \// //_// \ \/ /
>                  `~. \       /         /____/ /_/ /_/\/ /___/  /_/\_\
>                    ~. \____./           ...for IQs GREATER than 98...
>                      `.=====
>                   ___.--~~~--.__
>         ___\.--~~~              ~~~---.._|/  (remove the obvious
>         ~~~"                             /    to e-mail me...)
> --