> I'm curious to what degree people have used serial number > intelligence gathering and countermeasures in the industry. Like > were/are there market research firms that would go to Fry's and > record numbers off of boxes to try to extrapolate sales for things > like printer consumables, and whether companies like HP ever took > measures to try to obfuscate the potential information content of > their product serial numbers.
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