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Data-Leak
I'm not sure if I like Mail.app posting my MAC-Adress to everybody....
Data-Leak - or not
Why not? It's not like you can use it to attack/access your machine. It's merely a hardware identifier.
Data-Leak
I agree, on a positive side, this could be used to track spammers back to a physical maschine, but I guess only law enforcement agencies would be able to extract information about a buyer from computer manufacturers.
Data-Leak? Don't be paranoid
Don't be paranoid. For one thing, you can change your MAC address whenever you like (see "man ifconfig"), and for another, your MAC address is necessarily public (to machines on your network) anyway, otherwise they wouldn't know how to reach each other (see "man arp"). |
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