Re: 'Machine ID' underspecified?

On Monday, 7 December 2020 04:03:59 PST Simon McVittie wrote:
> It is possible (although rare) to use D-Bus in ways other than the
> two well-known buses, and some of those could conceivably make sense
> to use over TCP, although anyone doing this should be aware that D-Bus
> over TCP has no integrity or confidentiality protection and has led to
> a 1.4 million vehicle recall[1] (presumably rather expensive) on at least
> one occasion.

It's also possible to modify the D-Bus protocol to provide that integrity. The 
entire AllJoyn protocol was designed like that.