[109771] in Cypherpunks
Re: Decisions, decisions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Sat Apr 3 22:21:43 1999
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 12:39:24 -0800
To: "Reese (aka Reeza!)" <reeza@flex.com>, "X" <xasper8d@lobo.net>,
<cypherpunks@cyberpass.net>
From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990402212353.008948a0@flex.com>
Reply-To: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
>At 02:52 PM 4/2/99 -0700, X wrote:
>>I'm buying a better laptop for work/travel and I want to avoid if possible
>>the intel i.d. tattoo. I recall seeing that certain PII for portables also
>>have ID chips... anyone know if the Pentium MMX 200Mhz was clean?
The important issue isn't avoiding the Intel id, but avoiding the
Microsoft Office and Internet Exploiter ids.
(Best way to do this is to avoid MSWindows entirely,
but you have a fair bit of security by simply avoiding those products;
stick to text and HTML editors and Mozilla or lynx browsers (or maybe Opera.)
Thanks!
Bill
Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com
PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639
