http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10018
Luke Bratch l_bratch@yahoo.co.uk changed:
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--- Comment #28 from Luke Bratch l_bratch@yahoo.co.uk 2007-11-28 14:17:15 --- (In reply to comment #26)
Is the disk ID really that sensitive? I think not. It's just that nobody has bothered to carve out a hole so that users can read it (and not the other stuff on the disk, and not modify anything) before. But I will ask some kernel / security folks what they think.
It does seem to be - I once posted my disk ID in the form that you did above to the Linux Bugzilla and the general response was to mask that when posting any disk utility outputs.
Presumably it stops any forging disks in situations just like activation process.