Guides · 3 min
Seeded hardware identities, without the mysticism
Seeded hardware identities turn one number into a stable identifier set. Why determinism beats pure randomness in the lab.
Field notes
The hardware privacy desk
Long-form research notes on device fingerprinting, plus a dedicated article for every title on Status. Built as real HTML, not a JavaScript shell, so search engines and readers get the article on first byte.
Guides · 5 min
Hardware fingerprinting, explained for 2026
How hardware fingerprinting collects SMBIOS, disk, MAC, and GPU identifiers, and why temporary masking differs from a permanent rewrite.