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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (71792)	1/21/1999 12:43:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	of 186894

<Seems Intel want to imbed ID numbers in their chips so "whomever" can follow you around the web. ACLU is up in arms. What will Intel try next?> Any web site stupid enough to try and obtain your "ID number" on your CPU without your permission is going to face hell. Blizzard Entertainment experienced this when Starcraft players who logged onto Battle.net found out that their system information was being sent secretly to the web server. Blizzard apologized, saying it was an effort to track down pirates who copied the Starcraft software and used fake keys to get a Battle.net account, but that did little to allay the fears of the paranoid. I guess my point is that having the ID number on the CPU isn't going to create a new threat of privacy invasion. It will give the dishonest people a little more information to play with, but it won't make even more people dishonest. Having said that, I've got to say that the ACLU, or the Anti-Christian Liberties Union, lost credibility in my book a long time ago. Tenchusatsu

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