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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (103017)	4/28/2000 2:21:00 PM
From: Matthew Wecksell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Offtopic for a stock board, but I have to speak my mind here: I've always said that there are better ways to implement digital authentication than with the CPU ID number. But I also said that those who were opposing the serial number due to privacy concerns were lunatics. I'm not a lunatic. Those of us who oppose the serial number on privacy grounds are also against using the MAC address of our ethernet cards or anything else on our PCs to perform the same function of letting others know who we are. I don't show the identification in my wallet to just anyone, and I certainly don't show my work ID to bouncers at bars. In the real world, I control just how much of the stuff in my wallet I show to others, and I'd like to have the same control online. If I own my computer, I want to control how much information about me it gives to other people. I'm happy that Intel is eliminating this feature, even though I know that there are other ways to ID people on the net. Just my 50 shares worth... ---matt