Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 11:48:28 -0500 (EST) From: Jamie Bowden <jamie@itribe.net> To: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> Cc: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel PIII "Anti Piracy Feature"? Message-ID: <199903161652.LAA27020@gatekeeper.itribe.net> In-Reply-To: <36EE7FEF.5B2D6587@uk.radan.com>
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On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Mark Ovens wrote: > Apparently civil rights types and other "concerned" people are up in > arms over it, claiming it will allow Big Brother to watch what you do > and where you go on the Internet. In response to this Intel say they > will ship the chips with the feature turned off. Apparently it can be > turned off by software, but only turned on again by power-cycling the > chip. > > I find this hilarious. These "experts" jumping up and down about it > like it is new technology. They obviously don't know that proprietry > Unix boxes have had this for years. On any Sun, type ``hostid'' at the > prompt and it'll return a 32-bit hex number. I can change my hostid on a sun. Can you change the serial number on an intel? Jamie Bowden -- If we've got to fight over grep, sign me up. But boggle can go. -Ted Faber (on Hasbro's request for removal of /usr/games/boggle) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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