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Re: A different take on Intel's RSA announcements
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Thu Jan 21 21:43:30 1999
To: Jamie Fifield <fifield@cs.dal.ca>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 23:21:23 -0800
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
In message <Pine.GSO.3.96.990120200544.20413B-100000@borg>, Jamie Fifield write
s:
>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?
Intel also mentioned that for privacy reasons, one could disable reporting
of the id.
