Many digital cameras store the camera’s serial number in the photo’s EXIF information, which can then be used to identify photos taken with that specific camera. The new web service Stolen Camera Finder uses this concept to locate photos on the Internet. You can upload a photo taken with a particular camera to the service’s [...]

Categories: Online Services, The Web

Whenever a hard drive is formatted in Windows a serial number is assigned in the end. This serial number is often used by software applications to restrict a software installation to that hard drive or reduce the number of allowed activations by one by linking the serial number of the hard drive to one of [...]

Categories: Software, Windows