What do you mean, custom firmware? Are you trying to boot a different distro of Linux?
When you have the USB drive plugged in, how are you booting up? What's the process you're using?
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The first three octets of a MAC specify the manufacturer of a NIC chipset. That could come in handy for driver debugging.
Manufacturers and firmware versions of storage devices? You can make the argument; perhaps it would have helped figure out the SSD firmware bugs years ago.
But stuff like whether or not you have video capture card or your current system temperature stats? Nah.. that's getting into "identifiable information as toxic waste" territory.
I think I still have a copy of that book in a box somewhere. I know I have a scanned copy in my archive. Lots of fun.
Low hundreds of billions?
It also plans to make it easy for customers to shift between offerings depending on their needs.
That why it probably won't take off anywhere but the odd hackerspace for members. No vendor lock-in.
They sure make the task of keeping an eye on the chuds easier. Their OPSEC eats donkey ass.
Why would they hide anymore? They figure they won. No sense in not taking advantage of everything that implies.
I keep a documentation page in my wiki for every thing I set up - how I did it, what I ran into, how I fixed it, and where everything is. Reason being, when it comes time to upgrade or I have to install it again someplace else, I remember how I did it. Basically, every completed step gets copy-and-pasted into a page along with notes about it.
As for watching the file system, I have AIDE on all of my boxen (configured to run daily, but not configured to copy the new AIDE database over the old one automatically). That way, I can look at the output of an AIDE run and see what new files were created where (which would correspond to when I installed the new thing).
This is a thing that folks have done in the past:
- http://kacangbawang.com/encrypting-stored-email-with-postfix/
- https://www.grepular.com/Automatically_Encrypting_all_Incoming_Email and https://www.grepular.com/Automatically_Encrypting_all_Incoming_Email_Part_2
- https://jnphilipp.org/posts/auto-encrypt-all-incoming-email-with-postfix/
- https://www.mydreams.cz/en/hosting-wiki/9663-configuring-automatic-email-encryption-in-postfix-on-centos-7-using-gpg.html
The Great Game continues, same as it always has.
A MAC address isn't really unique. Each has six octets, of which three refer to the manufacturer. The other three octets have at most 16,777,216 possible values. That seems like a lot but it really isn't; a MAC is supposed to be unique on a LAN, not globally. Rollovers during manufacturing happen, and collisions are rare but happen once in a while.