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To: Elmer who wrote (43763)12/21/1998 9:10:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson  Respond to of 1574004
 
Elmer, It is more a legal question than a technical one. Now that it has been raised there will be some lawyers looking and this might set them thinking and perhaps to act?
True it will take some detailed examination of a number of CPUs, possibly in the hundreds to track batches etc and then some fine analysis of the dice to see what correlation there was/was not.
I am sure they will put different numbers on the same perta and say "they are different", because they have different numbers. However that is what B&L said and they were found out.
It could be the same here, someone will have to spec an investment of $100,000 just to buy some chips and examine them. Fortuneately the crooked lawyers no not believe in spending their own $ so this is not likely to happen.

Bill



To: Elmer who wrote (43763)12/22/1998 1:09:00 AM
From: nihil  Respond to of 1574004
 
re: it would have been done long ago.

Two FTC economists were walking down the street in front of the Federal Reserve Board. One says to the other: "Is that a $100,000 bill over there on the pavement?" The other replies: "Couldn't be. Somebody would surely have picked it up already."


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