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[Linus]

Originally Posted by Kobi

My brain isnt working too good today. Does this mean this is made up or embellished?

Does this mean the supposed data breaches at yahoo, linkedin and twitter are the same? I dont remember hearing anything about these before.

It's embellished. HUGELY.

They cannot get any passwords, yahoo, Google, etc. info from this. It's a hardware identifier and that's it.

It's the difference between knowing a street address for a house (which you can get in any real estate guide available at any public library) and actually breaking into a house, stealing your address book, bank statements and so on.