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Thanks. While the volume ID is quite easy to change, the SMBIOS UUID is not really easy to change (people have managed in Virtual Box to change it, but not easily). So this does seem like its 'safe' from being used by others and becoming unusable by me.
– thaimin
Commented Aug 31, 2015 at 19:26
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What is your source for "thinking" Windows 10 Digital Entitlement is built on these identifiers? Lots of people "think" lots of things about this, especially implicating the UUID, but I'm finding it oddly difficult to find any proof/official statement. It's highly likely, based on inference alone, but I hope we can find more evidence than speculation.
– underscore_d
Commented Aug 1, 2016 at 18:36
Re: Veracity of the claim: There was once a bug on VirtualBox that produced an all 0 smBIOS UUID. this caused windows activation to fail. It was fixed in 4.3.2 (virtualbox.org/manual/ch15.html). I think it's likely that this is just ONE thing they look at rather than the only thing.
– bobpaul
Commented Mar 15, 2018 at 1:35

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