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Re: A different take on Intel's RSA announcements
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Weinstein)
Wed Jan 20 20:28:38 1999
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 17:08:37 -0800
From: Tom Weinstein <tomw@netscape.com>
To: Rob Lemos <Rob_Lemos@zd.com>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
Rob Lemos wrote:
> http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2189721,00.html
This just seems like FUD to me. ID numbers should help detect theft and
fraud. They aren't going to compromise privacy. I expect it's going to behave
just like the debugging registers. Nobody is going to be able to get at your
chip's ID without running software on your system.
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