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I seem to vaguely remember some internet story about how these embedded UUIDs were used to de-mask a person by matching an UUID from a document with a known aut
by 0x0 11y ago
I seem to vaguely remember some internet story about how these embedded UUIDs were used to de-mask a person by matching an UUID from a document with a known author against an incriminating document. Or was it matching an Ethernet card's MAC address to an UUID in the .doc? Can't remember any details now.
- shillno1138 11y agoThere is very little anonymity in the real world in terms of computing at this point. You would have to be extremely careful to truly mask any electronic media being used as any kind of communication platform, online or offline.
- ojno 11y agoI think you're thinking of the Melissa virus https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_(computer_virus) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_(computer_virus) which did indeed get tracked back to its author like that.
- 0x0 11y agoThat's it! Thanks for the reminder.
- h4ckerish 11y agoNot so long ago people were concerned about CPU id. http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i224/s99/GroupJ/whitepaper.pdf http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i224/s99/GroupJ/whitepap...