Messages in this thread | | | From | "Mailing lists" <> | Date | Thu, 4 Mar 1999 20:46:03 +0200 | Subject | Re: [patch] PIII/Katmai & FXSAVE support, disable serial-#, 2.2.2 |
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In message <Pine.SOL.3.96L.990304130637.18474A-100000@unix16.andrew.cmu.edu> Bradley M Keryan writes:
>On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Dan Hollis wrote:
>> On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Nicholas J. Leon wrote: >> > Also, don't BIOSs carry ID stamps, too? >> >> I wonder how many people would freak out once they found that most IDE >> drives have serial numbers. >>
>Most VESA DDC monitors also have software-accessible serial numbers.
It's silly to count all devices which have software accessable serial number. No one of this can't be 100% reliable used to identify your machine like PIII psn just because all of it not obligatory. You can not using DDC monitor, or ethernet card, or IDE disk and so on. So it's impossible to include such possibility to web browser, but with PIII psn such possibilities became real. And I never buy PIII until psn will be removed at all. I don't thrust Intel. I don't thrust that once disabled this psn possibility can't be reenabled in some (may be undocumented) way.
SY, Stanislav Voronyi.
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