[Tilesathome] Take and Release feature

[Ian Dees]

On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Matthias Julius <lists at julius-net.net>wrote:

> The client ID is a random integer from 0 to 2^31-1, but there is
> nothing that prevents the user to edit client-id.txt.  The client will
> send whatever is in there.


The client ID should probably be a hash of some information related to the
machine that it is run on, not a random number. This way the number is
related to the system it is run on so that if the client were to be
reinstalled on the same machine, the same client ID would be made.
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