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SubjectRe: disabling Intel PSN
On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, David Woodhouse wrote:

> That's the best reason I've heard so far, and it still doesn't hold much
> water. They have to have a fall-back; nobody's going to voluntarily limit
> themselves to only running on PIII, and in that case you just disable the S/N
> while you're installing the license.

Fine, read it at boot, then disable it. Provide an API to return it's
value, change it. If you're not on a PIII, generate a random value.

I.e. marginalize it.



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