MAC addresses in JavaScript *

Question

I know that we can get the MAC address of a user via IE (ActiveX objects).

Is there a way to do the same thing in all browsers? (Especially since FF is gaining browser share everyday!)

Answer

I concur with all the previous answers that it would be a privacy/security vulnerability if you would be able to do this directly from Javascript. There are two things I can think of:

• Using Java (with a signed applet)
• Using signed Javascript, which in FF (and Mozilla in general) gets higher privileges than normal JS (but it is fairly complicated to set up)

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