28 Feb
2011
28 Feb
'11
9:10 a.m.
On Feb 28, 2011, at 9:01 PM, Joe Abley wrote:
By embedding the MAC into the layer-3 address, the concern is that the information becomes accessible Internet-wide.
Given the the toxicity of hotel networks alone, my guess is that it already is pretty much available Internet-wide, at least to those who stand to illicitly profit by it the most. ;> And let's not get started on IMEIs, ESNs, and MEIDs, heh. SMTP headers and various IM client sessions are also quite revealing, for that matter - and in near- or real-time, in many cases. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net> // <http://www.arbornetworks.com> The basis of optimism is sheer terror. -- Oscar Wilde