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Post #392,781 by mvitale 8/4/14 11:45:02 AM Reply	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, kept up to date. -Mike @MikeVitale42 "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, 1759 Historical Review of Pennsylvania
Post #392,786 by malraux 8/4/14 1:25:01 PM Reply	No, that's the point: they can tell from your uptime. If your uptime is over a year, for example, that tells someone that your kernel is at least that old. Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
Post #392,787 by mvitale 8/4/14 1:29:06 PM Reply	Ah. Sly. -Mike @MikeVitale42 "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, 1759 Historical Review of Pennsylvania
Post #392,788 by folkert 8/4/14 1:54:41 PM Reply	Actually... If using some workarounds and kexec... can be spoofed. Many time even then, it is required. "Detecting" uptime is a black craft... and it doesn't work most times. -- greg@gregfolkert.net "No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." --Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Why do I care if others can determine my computer's uptime? - (mvitale) - (6) - Aug. 4, 2014, 10:42:16 AM EDT

How old is your kernel? -NT - (malraux) - (4) - Aug. 4, 2014, 11:19:53 AM EDT

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, kept up to date. -NT - (mvitale) - (3) - Aug. 4, 2014, 11:45:02 AM EDT

No, that's the point: they can tell from your uptime. - (malraux) - (2) - Aug. 4, 2014, 01:25:01 PM EDT

Ah. Sly. -NT - (mvitale) - Aug. 4, 2014, 01:29:06 PM EDT

Actually... - (folkert) - Aug. 4, 2014, 01:54:41 PM EDT

Meh - (folkert) - Aug. 4, 2014, 01:18:11 PM EDT

Freud would have wanted it this way.
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