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Re: A different take on Intel's RSA announcements
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jamie Fifield)
Wed Jan 20 23:15:54 1999
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 20:22:20 -0400 (AST)
From: Jamie Fifield <fifield@cs.dal.ca>
Reply-To: Jamie Fifield <fifield@cs.dal.ca>
To: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <852566FF.00792F77.00@mailer.zd.com>
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Rob Lemos wrote:
> http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2189721,00.html
>From this article:
"This kills theft," said one cryptographer at this week's RSA
Data Security Conference, who had been briefed by Intel on its
plans. "As soon as you go on the Internet, you will be detected."
Um, why? Unless network cards are made to transmit the ID when queried
without any interference from software, wouldn't one just configure one's
operating system to either not reply to these queries or to use some other
ID?
Anyone know something and want to share with the group? :)
--
Jamie Fifield <fifield@cs.dal.ca>
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
