[107738] in Cypherpunks
Re: CDR: Re: Adieu Privacy: Intel identifiziert Chips
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Vogt)
Fri Jan 22 03:38:25 1999
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 09:26:28 +0100
From: Tom Vogt <tv@wlwonline.de>
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Tom Vogt <tv@wlwonline.de>
Jim Burnes - Denver wrote:
> This only matters if Intel is the only processor available
> on the net. And thats only important in Win95 is the only
> OS on the net.
> With the spreading popularity of Linux and its availability
> on a wide number of CPU's that will no longer be a given.
right
> Non-intel, PCI bus compatible systems will proliferate if
> Intel starts playing games like this.
and intel-based systems will have kernel-patches available to take that
"feature" out within a few hours, I bet.
> Keep crypto where it belongs -- in source code where I can
> see it. This is not about crypto. This smells like a big
> law-enforcement/licenseing grab.
most probably. sparc machines worked that way for centuries. palmpilots
have unique "hotsync-id"s (that get installed by the windows-software,
obviously. my palm never connected to a windows machine and does not
seem to have this id. as a result, a couple of shareware-programs have
run "registered" out of the box - which should send a screaming warning
bell to the fools betting their profit on such a mechanism!).
