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Bill Frantz (2013-07-31T16:19:53.000Z)
On 7/31/13 at 8:35 AM, brendan at mozilla.com (Brendan Eich) wrote:

>uuidgen implementations have used MAC addresses in the past, which I believe led to a public collision.

In 1998 we (Electric Communities) discovered that people using 
AOL software to access the internet were all assigned the same 
MAC address. Using timing of UI events is much better.

Cheers - Bill

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domenic at domenicdenicola.com (2013-08-02T20:45:59.951Z)
On 7/31/13 at 8:35 AM, brendan at mozilla.com (Brendan Eich) wrote:

>uuidgen implementations have used MAC addresses in the past, which I believe led to a public collision.

In 1998 we (Electric Communities) discovered that people using 
AOL software to access the internet were all assigned the same 
MAC address. Using timing of UI events is much better.
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