Ben, thank you for your skepticism. On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 01:53:55 -0400 (EDT), Ben Mendis wrote: > I am not disputing that the serial numbers exist. I'm wondering how > viable they are as an attack vector, and thus how much of a threat they > realistically pose.
Just in case I was missing an entire class of attack, I also asked about freebirds's letter to the folks who research this sort of thing, the Tor list. Seth [0], from the EFF, and proper [1] both produced great overviews on the state of hardware-assisted tracking. In short, many other privacy problems are much easier to track, and some are easier to avoid by connecting to the Internet via VM. 0: http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jun-2012/msg00157.html 1: http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jun-2012/msg00169.html > If you're seriously worried about this kind of stuff, then I'm surprised > you would risk using any kind of computer at all. Ken Thompson wrote a > very relevant article almost 30 years ago on what it means to trust your > computer. > > http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html I hadn't seen that article before, though I've actually seen commercial Unix-clones built from the ground up because of that specific issue. Don't recall the name, though. Thanks for your time, Nick
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