Exposure of the device serial number during export

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It’s probably not that much serious. Yes, it allows to discover IP address if IP->Cloud DDNS (which is not enabled by default) is in use, which is not ideal. So it would be good idea to not export it for hide-sensitive.

Otherwise it’s not possible to filter everything. If I write some super-secret stuff in script, there’s no way export could filter it automatically. But where it’s possible and it’s currently wrong, that should be corrected.

Agree, the serial number should be hidden when using “hide-sensitive”. Especially considering the times we are living in and to make everyone aware of why this might be a problem maybe a warning should be stated something like this:

“Please hide the serial number of the device before posting an export to a public forum since it may be used to trace you ip address if using the Mikrotik cloud (serialnumber.sn.mynetname.net).”

Since the root cause of the problem is that the serial number is directly mapped to the IP cloud service, imho Mikrotik should in the long run try find another solution where the two are decoupled from each other.

Good points, now if you can only address this one…
http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/zerotier-sd-wan-network-orchestration/158139/17