Paul - RE: "Most home users connect through an ISP - and that ISP could very easily monitor
and record EVERY bit and Byte sent and received by EVERY CUSTOMER. An
ISP could monitor and record EVERY WEB SITE that you or any other customer
visits, as well. This information could then be sold to whoever wants that data -
Ken Starr, Mr. Rodgers, AMerican Express, etc., etc."
Yes, but does the average internet user know this??? No. All they know is that they call a number and they are on the net. They don't know that their ISP can track them if it wanted to. If this issue gets well known, and it may with all the controversy surrounding it, the average internet user will read the good and bad of it. Who knows which side they will focus on.
RE: "Further, how can you be sure that your ISP isn't being "hacked" and that some Cyberterrorist isn't doing the exact same thing?"
Lets see, what are the chances of that happening. Saddam may be watching that I am at the AMD board at SI. I hope they don't send in their spies and get me tomorrow. Only the scaredy cats within the group of scaredy cats would worry, or even think of that. I wonder how you got such an idea...
RE: "The net sum is that Intel will once again be the recipient of MILLIONS OF
DOLLARS OF FREE PUBLICITY - every news program on every network will
cover the controversy - newspaper HEADLINES will sport Intel and the Intel
Inside LOGO all over their pages, etc."
HELLO PAUL!!!! Are you thinking correctly tonight?? This is OBVIOUSLY NEGATIVE publicity. You want the country to see people picketing against Intel? Do you??? Do you think Intel liked being "the recipient of MILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF FREE PUBLICITY" when the Pentium bug became public a few years ago? Do you think Intel will like people talking bad about them?
RE: "And in the end, most users will realize that Intel has provided for extreme Internet
security, that the ID access can be turned off at will, and realize that once again,
Intel is providing new technology for the future that adds compelling value to
their new products."
Cheeeeeeeeesy. If you ask me, I would say you work for Intel PR. The only way that may happen is if Intel markets it as such a product. Intel has the muscle to do so, but they don't have the muscle to make the public ignore protesters.
It is time to wake up from la-la land Paul. In the short term, this could hurt Intel more than it could help them. |
