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To: VICTORIA GATE, MD who wrote (75672)	3/7/1999 2:21:00 PM
From: Paul Fiondella	Read Replies (1) of 186894

NYTimes reports MSFT caught using embedded IDs to keep track of users A researcher in Boston found the id number Microsoft stores in the registry for its OS BEING ENCODED INTO EVERY DATA FILE HE CREATED with his wordprocessor, spreadsheet, and email programs. Thus any document he transmitted had his id in it. He reported the encoding of the registry id number into the data files to MSFT as a "bug". MSFT indicated to the Times that when a user downloaded a MSFT OS upgrade even if that user indicated he didn't want his registration information "preserved" in their records they were reading the registration id from the registry and uploading other information anyway. All the information about the user in their database including address and telephone number was indexed in their database by the registry id. Microsoft admitted that it was currently storing serial numbers of various hardware devices in the user database including the serial number of various network adapter cards. ======================= Sounds to me like the Pentium III id is just another piece of information Microsoft is accumulating in their user database.

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