MAC addresses in JavaScript

MAC addresses in JavaScript I know that we can get the MAC address of a user via IE (ActiveX objects). Is there a way to obtain a user's MAC address using JavaScript? 8 Answers 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) I was courious to know, can we get a unique information like mac adress or serial number or something like that from user via JavaScript? Or PC name? The quick and simple answer is No. Javascript is quite a high level language and does not have access to this sort of information. then what about all the google search result providing sample codes to get MAC Address I've had a quick look around Google and all of the pages I read were IE

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