Tracking Internet Computers

[Bill McGonigle]

On Mar 5, 2005, at 22:13, Stephen Ryan wrote:

> While
> there may be some usefulness to this technique in some limited
> circumstances, it is *not* useful for tracking any particular device
> across the wilds of the Internet or even for identifying devices among 
> a
> small-ish set; there are simply too many other devices out there and 
> too
> few unique clock skews for it to work as a unique identifier (not to
> mention the fact that the Birthday Paradox would screw it up as well).

It might be useful as an additional identifier in an authentication 
system that uses secure machines (if the possibility of a secure hard 
drive image being stolen is a concern).  More tech that can be used for 
good or evil...

-Bill
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