Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

[User Freebsd]

On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote:

> On 8/1/06, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm at toybox.placo.com> wrote:
>> Why not just add in the patch in kern/65627 and run the CPU serial number
>> through
>> your hash?
>
> Because you can still fake the dam thing, making the whole idea
> useless!!! Am I the only one that can see this ... what the hell
> people! I just showed you a working crack! Need to see it again?:
>
> my $number = "100000000000000000000";
> my $randomkey = "";
> while (0 == 0) {
> $randomkey = `echo $number | md5`;
> print "fetch http://www.hub.org/freebsd_stats.php?HOSTID=$randomkey";
> $number++
> }
>
> OUT:
> fetch 
> http://www.hub.org/freebsd_stats.php?HOSTID=e8b3fad8939670f85e0fce777cae8e0c
> fetch 
> http://www.hub.org/freebsd_stats.php?HOSTID=91e572785d190fec766a5b7caef16597
> fetch 
> http://www.hub.org/freebsd_stats.php?HOSTID=e8150443d9befbfba9ee6ca40af076e7
> fetch 
> http://www.hub.org/freebsd_stats.php?HOSTID=b1aefc59367a7d512104f2f63bf1afb8
> fetch 
> http://www.hub.org/freebsd_stats.php?HOSTID=bf883c70f506603c86c8785cca8eef5e
> fetch 
> http://www.hub.org/freebsd_stats.php?HOSTID=79e005d4f379e549eaff7106ede744b7
> fetch 
> http://www.hub.org/freebsd_stats.php?HOSTID=de09c238162dae88e9372102fe114be9
> fetch 
> http://www.hub.org/freebsd_stats.php?HOSTID=7ac8e65d693f525db9fabb061f15ac8b
> fetch 
> http://www.hub.org/freebsd_stats.php?HOSTID=14e16452a9bdff69e5177ee4de0631e0
> fetch 
> http://www.hub.org/freebsd_stats.php?HOSTID=5432cc5903e4ff9b556561c5b553220b
> fetch 
> http://www.hub.org/freebsd_stats.php?HOSTID=263aaf7d4910cce7b66e2e4438d65ab2
> fetch 
> http://www.hub.org/freebsd_stats.php?HOSTID=083d41d985775a53c2ada0c66b1a7d4c
> fetch 
> http://www.hub.org/freebsd_stats.php?HOSTID=3e1b6b0b9c5c4d478b4a161c6e1c5d46
> fetch 
> http://www.hub.org/freebsd_stats.php?HOSTID=1aed1b7d4add59bedfd21df56e15cd90
> fetch 
> http://www.hub.org/freebsd_stats.php?HOSTID=233196bee8136806b7570532d1d34349
> fetch 
> http://www.hub.org/freebsd_stats.php?HOSTID=56753858102f51b756c93bd5c0dbfaa5
> fetch 
> http://www.hub.org/freebsd_stats.php?HOSTID=baea3619ea55ee516e3c556ffb7fd287
> fetch 
> http://www.hub.org/freebsd_stats.php?HOSTID=cf49ffbeb51fd9864386388a68f41059
> fetch 
> http://www.hub.org/freebsd_stats.php?HOSTID=f5c052e568711a4cb61890d7114d1f43
> fetch 
> http://www.hub.org/freebsd_stats.php?HOSTID=5796f413c62eb369fa15c37fffb748f8
> fetch 
> http://www.hub.org/freebsd_stats.php?HOSTID=4574ee7d3334a609c5b4de66f1527eca
>
> Surrounded by #$%^*$@ idiots.

Actually, must have missed this the first time through, thanks ... but, 
why would we need to run the CPU serial number through the hash, if its 
already unique to each CPU? >

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