(I now deeply regred having written things on the twitter website, own your data folks.)

A set of remarkable UUIDs in my database

While archiving UUIDs, I stumbled on strange, remarkable UUIDs, that could have their place in an article about remarkable UUIDs.

Below is a twitter link pointing to a thread where I listed findings, but the present blog article is a better

THREAD : Discoveries from my UUID indexation & archive quest.

For your delighted clicks, the database where I attempt to collect all the Global UUID is hosted at https://t.co/73lVFkqCmm.

— GLOBAL UUID DATABASE (@582a1cb9) February 19, 2018

TODO: finish this blog article

• https://uuid.pirate-server.com/869DADA0-42A0-1069-A2E7-08002B30309D
• https://uuid.pirate-server.com/search?q=005056c0000 (VMware bridge mac)
• https://uuid.pirate-server.com/597ae2f6-16a6-1027-98f4-d28b5365dc14 (rfc error)
• https://uuid.pirate-server.com/search?q=0800200c9a66 famkruithof.net generator (so much in here)
• https://uuid.pirate-server.com/f3ce0f7c-4901-4acc-8648-d5d44b04ef8f microsoft name (Jean Philippe Bagel)

Fun fact, as per @BluetoothSIG specification, all transactions are required to yell into the electromagnetic void the MAC address of the network interface of some Hewlett Packard laptop, 00:80:5f:9b:34:fb.
'\\_(◕ ◡ ◕)_/' https://t.co/mtnRTB5qCRhttps://t.co/in7ktlXNXP

— GLOBAL UUID DATABASE (@582a1cb9) February 4, 2018

• https://uuid.pirate-server.com/search?q=00805f9b34fb

Redmond mysteries :

In 1995 at Redmond, someone was the database guy.
In 1996, a hypertext markup wizard joined a group.
In 1998, a musician joined a group.

Did they know each other ? Are they dead ?

Their computer MAC addresses were 00aa0044773d, 00aa00bdce0b and 00600893b1bd.

— GLOBAL UUID DATABASE (@582a1cb9) February 4, 2018

Production releases as well:

Microsoft registered the Direct3D-related CLSID UUIDs four months before the public release in 1996.https://t.co/j9D0G9rR3r pic.twitter.com/OlqP6Kb5nv

— GLOBAL UUID DATABASE (@582a1cb9) February 4, 2018

Microsoft shell:::

• https://uuid.pirate-server.com/search?q=shell:::

Easter egg

• https://uuid.pirate-server.com/869DADA0-42A0-1069-A2E7-08002B30309D

Bitflipped things

You can bitflip, but you can't hide. pic.twitter.com/XHvCRZ3cfQ

— GLOBAL UUID DATABASE (@582a1cb9) April 22, 2018

More attack surface

Oh god. There seem to be an API to interact with CLSID-related binaries from HTML.https://t.co/TTI5sUN0Ewhttps://t.co/zNCgTM2yl4
(icymi, @cure53berlin made one of the best html pages out there) pic.twitter.com/cpbySc3hWp

— GLOBAL UUID DATABASE (@582a1cb9) April 25, 2018

Windows+R : shell:::{ED228FDF-9EA8-4870-83b1-96b02CFE0D52}
Opens InprocServer32.: C:\Windows\System32\gameux.dllhttps://t.co/GYCUHsKXbu.

I'll definitely add a search engine to my database. pic.twitter.com/CbOg42yenZ

— GLOBAL UUID DATABASE (@582a1cb9) February 3, 2018