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To: shrinks who wrote (64227)	7/9/1999 7:57:00 AM
From: gnuman	Read Replies (1) of 132070

China says no to Pentium III, chip IDs and Win98 From the Register According to a report in the Guangming Daily, the Chinese Ministry of Information Industry (MII) has identified "hidden perils in Pentium III and Win98" (so Microsoft's control-freakery is causing angst as well), and has advised government agencies accordingly. Said a spokesman: "We have conducted serious research and thus acquired a thorough knowledge of hidden security perils in PIII chips, Win98 as well as servers produced by different companies." So according to MII, Intel, Microsoft and PC OEMs are all in the frame. Domestic PC manufacturers will have to turn off PSN, while all government agencies should turn off PSN on the computers they buy. Not only that, computers with a PSN capability must be used either in stand-alone mode or on an intranet, never connected to the Internet. It's not entirely clear why Win98 is being picked-on too. Has MS been daft enough to insist on Chinese users adhering to a 'direct to Redmond' online registration procedure? Surely not... theregister.co.uk

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