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To: David who wrote (12324)	1/31/1999 12:18:00 AM
From: David	of 26039

An excellent NY Times article on the Intel Pentium III misstep: nytimes.com An excerpt: "If the engineers didn't expect a great deal of trouble, it may be because they didn't see the feature as a tool for tracking people. They promoted it as a feature for corporate users and the major content industries of Hollywood, both of whom want to track individual machines in order to monitor the flow of information and control the piracy of software and multimedia content. "The movie and record industry are clearly responsible for some of the demand for hardwired ID numbers in computers. They see the personal computer as a tool that makes it easy to make copies without paying for them. A well-equipped modern computer can duplicate most of the features of the average VCR, stereo and videocamera." And besides, Intel thought it would be useful for data security. I think a screwup like this one is going to bring Intel pretty far along the privacy/security/authentication learning curve quite quickly.

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