Re: Intel Pentium III security `bug'

[Zoki <zokiphoto magic fr>]

On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, HaqR Angel wrote:

->Writing based on non-technical media news:
->
->Word has it that the upcoming Pentium III chips have a security `bug' that
->somehow broadcasts the chip's serial number... I've yet to see a technical
->spec

<snip>

The latest press release from Intell is that the CPU-ID feature will be
disabled by default and has to be enabled by the user, and only at boot
time.


*** It was not a bug it was a feature. Some consumer organisation squeezed
the balls of Intel hence the change Tony is speaking about. However,
anything that can be enabled/disabled by the user can also by somebody
else whithout the users knowledge. Between Netscape's cookies & the
browsers that can send info about its user and this new Pentium III spy I
wonder if Orwell just had a lucky guess or a glass ball...

Cheers,
Zoran.
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