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pete_dushenski: "The cert, we're told, is used with the plugin for receiving cryptographically signed telemetry requests; said telemetry includes things like the machine's service tag, a seven-character
serial number that identifies the
computer model, if not the individual machine."
ascii_field: 'Steve Jobs played no role at all in any of my designs of the Apple I and Apple II
computer and printer interfaces and
serial interfaces and floppy disks and stuff that I made to enhance the computers. He did not know technology. He’d never designed anything as a hardware engineer, and he didn’t know software. He wanted to be important, and the important people are always the business people. So that’s wh
pete_dushenski: first you unplug the usb drive from inside the edgerouter, plug it into your
computer, install openbsd on it, unpack it, reinstall the drive in the edgerouter, establish a
serial connection, and start talking.
pete_dushenski: TomServo i found another
computer with a
serial port that actually talked to the
serial cable i have. the usb adapter i bought was b0rked.
BingoBoingo: I had a dislike of intel since reading about the pentium III
serial number in a magazine well before I had any
computer.
mircea_popescu: Certified
computer forensic examiner out of Austin, Texas, lawyer Craig Ball, says that authorities can use the
serial numbers off of two flash drives, said to contain the tax returns, left at a political office in Williamson County. Each
computer keeps a record of all external devices plugged into them. Considering how easy a task this is, one suspects that the authorities would have already completed it, either impl