[Qt-interest] Mac OS machine identification

[Tiago Correia]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:36 PM, Rohan McGovern
<rohan.mcgovern at nokia.com>wrote:

> On Thursday 22 January 2009, Tiago Correia wrote:
> > Hi,
> > You could use the MAC address. check the class QNetworkInterface,
> > method hardwareAddress(). But for Mac there are many interfaces,
> > so you should use one started by "en".
> >  Try something like this:
> >
>
> I don't think this is a good idea because MAC addresses can be
> easily changed.
>

I agree that the MAC address can be easily changed, but this might be
enough. It depends on the type of users. Most of the ordinary users, just
buy a computer and use. There are very few cases of these type of users,
that change the network card, and even the MAC address. Normally they just
change the graphics card, hard disk. If they change the main board(that now,
most of them already have a network card) they most reinstall the OS. And
since we are talking about Macintosh computers, most of the users of mac
just buy the computer and use it with out change the hardware.

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