Questions tagged [identification]
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Mobile Device identification using Nmap
I am attempting to identify a mobile device on a LAN using Nmap, more specifically an Android smartphone. Both my laptop and the target (android smartphone) are connected to the same access point. I can ping the device etc. When I run a standard…

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How can my code find out if it's running as VBScript, .HTA, or VBA?
(Final edit: The code I ended up putting together that works is way down below, it's probably the final reply in this thread. :-) )
I'm trying to write generic copy-and-paste code that will work in a standalone VBScript (a .vbs file), in a .hta…

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Unique System ID in Ruby ...?
Is there a way to generate an unique Hardware dependent Identification key in Ruby...?

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What to use? Digital signature?
Sorry I couldn't find the best heading for this question. Following is my requirement.
I a working on a project which deals which large amount of money transactions to different account. The system automatically transfers money to accounts of A,B, C…

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How to reliably identify users across Internet?
I know this is a big one. In fact, it may be used for some SO community wiki.
Anyways, I am running a website that DOES NOT use explicit authentication of users. It's public as in open to everybody. However, due to the nature of the service, some…

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There is a "code" for language (English, Spanish, etc...) not defined?
In my application there is language detection. Languages have some identification code like en for English, pt for Portuguese, fr for French, etc.
Is there a language code for the case when a language cannot be identified (unknown language)?

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Android emulators with phone numbers?
I'm working on a client-server Android application and trying to figure out how to identify different phones/users to the server unambiguously. My first attempt would be to use the phone number on the SIM card. Although now that I think about it,…

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Identifying and relating cities from different sources
I have different providers which passes me an excel with different cities, in each city they use some special code for their operations and more data useful to my business.
The problem is that I have a mess with all these cities:
I have my own…

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How to defend against users with Multiple Accounts?
We have a service where we literally give away free money.
Naturally said service is ripe for abuse. To defend against this we do the following:
log ip address
use unique email addresses (only 1 acct/email addy)
collect more info like st. address,…

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How to generate an unique computer id on Delphi?
How can I quickly generate an unique computer id for a delphi app?
I used to do it easly with c#, but this failed sometimes. I do want the ID to be "static" but I don't care if the id changes because of a hardware change or OS reinstallation, I was…

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Identifying If the OS is (Open)SUSE in Python?
I'm developing a script that needs the package managers of a System. I've identified Fedora, Gentoo, and Arch Linux using the os.uname() function.
However, the (open)SUSE uname results is the same as other Linux Distros. I found the uname results of…

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R: How to identify unknown number of combinations?
I have data in the following format:
Data <- data.frame(
Names = c("Person A", "Person B","Person F", "Person G", "Person F", "Person G", "Person Q", "Person R"),
Time_Stamp = c("2013-08-01 07:06:00", "2013-08-01 07:06:00", "2013-08-01…

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Identifying CDs
I'd like to be able to determine what music album CD is in a CD drive. For example, if someone claims that the CD in their drive is Eminem - The Eminem Show, I would like to be able to verify that the CD is indeed The Eminem Show.
Any ideas? I've…

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How to find out whether input is number or text in objective-c?
I've tried to search, but I think my google is skill is not good enough, so I'm asking a help from people. I'm scanning through a string and taking each element. I need to find out whether it's number or text. I did my checking in that way:
// Try…

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SMS - How to avoid Bankruptcy?
I'm coding a new website that will need users to enter their mobile phone number, the problem I'm facing is that I need to make sure that the user is in fact the owner of (or in this case, has access to) the mobile number.
The solution I've come up…

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