[zeugma]

What Dr. Web had was a list of UUIDs known in the range that would be for Macs. .

Aren't UUIDs normally random? I didn't know Apple was using a generating system like that used for MAC (the other kind) addresses.

I figured he'd done something like this:

$ for x in {1..10};do uuidgen ;done
d660a675-41e1-4c31-984a-268890777c4d
f1b041e3-b99d-411b-b506-a2f289cf8cb4
e8ec7d6e-bf19-4c28-a52c-7dca620cd829
a15d3481-04cd-4def-8640-c14004f6c417
f66df738-59b7-4187-8d64-11966d401c11
67b1d1c9-8554-4da9-aa54-9c04df545742
94ef42df-0d5e-4a58-8a64-59a97474b19d
f5219190-19f9-4b59-8673-e51b375c203c
1d3533fd-1e4a-4e61-bcff-9e2335a27339
8153b8db-3f16-40a1-82c3-605e8b4601dc
 

and then reported the UUIDs as being infected.

 

[Swordmaker]

Aren't UUIDs normally random? I didn't know Apple was using a generating system like that used for MAC (the

My understanding is there are some ranges the manufacturers are provided to use. . . That avoids the possibility of an accidental duplication. Plus one can determine device type from the UUID. I'm not any kind of an expert not his but I know you can ID the type of device from the UUID, but not much more. That's how Dr. Web was able to claim these were all Macs.