Re: [patch] PIII/Katmai & FXSAVE support, disable serial-#, 2.2.2

Nat Lanza (magus@cs.cmu.edu)
03 Mar 1999 22:14:00 -0500


Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@e-mind.com> writes:

> Don't trust it! Spoofing the MAC address is quite easy for a knowledged
> cracker.

Fortunately, the average cracker is an idiot, so simple things like
this are pretty effective. Really, the average cracker we see on our
network isn't bright enough to delete shell history files. I doubt
he'd be bright enough to spoof a MAC address.

--nat

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