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Old March 6th, 2008, 08:40 AM
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Idenfiant of mac(Disk Serial number, mac adress)

Hi everyone, I'm working with xCode on a mini mac os x 10.4 Tiger. I want to get an identifiant of my machine like hard disk serial number or mac adress.
If anyone know a library, api which let me to have those information.
Thank you a lot in advance.
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Old March 6th, 2008, 09:20 AM
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... I want to get an identifiant of my machine like hard disk serial number or mac adress. ...
It is MAC address, not mac address. Spelled correctly or incorrectly, it is a mistake to use the MAC address for a paid application to identify the host computer. MAC addresses can readily be spoofed. Hard disk serial numbers also make a pure computer ID number. This will inconvenience the honest Mac user whose hard drive must be replaced.

Every Mac has a computer serial number which can be accessed via the System Profile utility. This serial number can't be spoofed and remains the same even in the peripherals change.
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