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To: Paul Engel who wrote (46992)	1/22/1999 3:37:00 AM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1571401

Paul, The security features can be enabled or disabled. But how do you convince people that they really can disable them? The fear of the government (or worse Microsoft) snooping on people stirs very deep emotions. No one has ever ventured safely into hardware public key encryption before, and Intel is taking a risk going there now. if successful, AMD will be locked out of another market Not really. There is little risk to competitors because any hardware encryption scheme can be securely emulated in software. Hardware keys are are a good idea for nuclear weapons, but are massive overkill for home PC's. Scumbria