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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems
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To: Charles Tutt who wrote (14024)1/27/1999 2:33:00 PM
From: QwikSand  Read Replies (2) of 64865
 
Charles, I think there's little to defuse. McNealy is just repeating what he's been saying for years.

He basically chides people who are afraid to give credit card numbers over the internet but are happy to hand their cards to waiters and shop clerks ten times in one day at the mall, and who have U.S. mailboxes down the hill near the road out of sight of their homes. While there are certainly legitimate issues connected with electronic privacy, there's also a lot of paranoia by people who are neurotically predisposed to paranoia and/or don't really understand technology very well.

I personally think putting a serial number in each chip would be a good thing on the whole, and help people more than threaten their privacy (even though it would create some abuse potential) by enabling foolproof key-pair generation. It could also help reduce software piracy.

IMHO Intel was doing the right thing, and I think McNealy is completely right about what he says. I doubt his statement will hurt Sun in any way. Did you know Sun and many other computer companies have been putting a unique id in a prom in every one of their computers for years (that is readable from software)? Any abuse from this that you know of?

Regards,
--QwikSand
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