Ik krijg dit te zien als ik mijn shields test bij grc.com:
The Media Access Control (MAC) address of the network interface card in your computer can be easily read by any computer or web server on the Internet. Yours is: xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx
The MAC address is a "guaranteed to be globally unique" 48-bit serial number embedded into every Ethernet network adapter ever made. The problem is you can't change it — it's like your machine's unique indelible fingerprint — and it's being made available to any web site (like this one) that you visit. In many ways it's like a "super web browser cookie on steroids" that cannot be disabled or blocked by normal means.
Many people have become very upset over the unique serial number embedded into every Pentium III processor, fearing the invasion of privacy that such a "globally unique ID tag" would represent. But the exposed network MAC address problem is much worse since it's already here, it's fully deployed and available for the asking from most computers on the Internet! More importantly . . . it's freely available from your computer.
Daar ben ik mooi klaar mee.
Hebben meer mensen deze melding?
Ik heb verbinding via een usb modem op het adsl netwerk van cistron.
En heb de firewall van mcafee geinstalled.
Bij de probe my ports test is alles stealth, maar bij de test my shields test zie ik dit.
Echt niks aan te doen?
The Media Access Control (MAC) address of the network interface card in your computer can be easily read by any computer or web server on the Internet. Yours is: xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx
The MAC address is a "guaranteed to be globally unique" 48-bit serial number embedded into every Ethernet network adapter ever made. The problem is you can't change it — it's like your machine's unique indelible fingerprint — and it's being made available to any web site (like this one) that you visit. In many ways it's like a "super web browser cookie on steroids" that cannot be disabled or blocked by normal means.
Many people have become very upset over the unique serial number embedded into every Pentium III processor, fearing the invasion of privacy that such a "globally unique ID tag" would represent. But the exposed network MAC address problem is much worse since it's already here, it's fully deployed and available for the asking from most computers on the Internet! More importantly . . . it's freely available from your computer.
Daar ben ik mooi klaar mee.
Hebben meer mensen deze melding?
Ik heb verbinding via een usb modem op het adsl netwerk van cistron.
En heb de firewall van mcafee geinstalled.
Bij de probe my ports test is alles stealth, maar bij de test my shields test zie ik dit.
Echt niks aan te doen?