Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 5 Mar 1999 12:11:18 +0900 (JST) | From | Tom Holroyd <> | Subject | [offtopic] Re: PIII/Katmai disable serial-# |
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>> 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.
But nobody's talking about modifying Internet Explorer to automatically send those numbers out over the web to track which sites you visit (the "universal cookie" idea), but they _are_ talking about using the cpuid this way.
Of course, if IE ever did that, somebody would make a binary patch to kill that "feature".
Dr. Tom Holroyd I would dance and be merry, Life would be a ding-a-derry, If I only had a brain. -- The Scarecrow
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