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[Acronym] for __G__lobally __U__nique __ID__entifier
A system for generating identifiers so they will be globally unique (ie, no two people will ever generate the same ID). This can be used to uniquely identify some resource. These are heavily used by [Microsoft], and have had reasonable adoption by other people too.
-GUID'
s have had some complaints leveled against them, including that they can include
a [MAC] address which also says which computer
the GUID was generated on
.
+Some methods for generating [
GUID]
s have gotten
a bad rep, such as [Microsoft]'s inclusion of the generating computer's
[MAC] address in
the [
GUID] generators in some versions of Windows Media Player, which allowed correlating [GUID]s from the same machine to each other
.
