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To: Scumbria who wrote (47008)	1/22/1999 11:36:00 AM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571498

Re: "Do you do a security investigation on every store clerk you hand your credit card to? Check out their phone lines for digital security? Make inquiries about the cleaning staff? Investigate the security of the bank they are dealing with?" Exactly. The risk of hacker picking off your credit card number from all the other noise on the internet is probably much less likely than some joker on the other end of the mail order line at LL Bean, J Crew, etc. appropriating the number for his person use after you give it to him over the telephone. And in either case, it doesn't matter, because your credit card insures you against these sorts of fraud. Paul has suggested that Intel is aiming at facilitating bigger transactions which people are too nervous to do online right now, but he's been unable to give me an example of such a transaction. The really big transactions (wiring money, etc.) are already done electronically over proprietary systems with perfect security. Current internet security technology is enough to handle just about everything else I can think of. Kevin

To: Scumbria who wrote (47008)	1/22/1999 11:36:00 AM
From: gerard mangiardi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571498

Reading this thread reminds me of Clinton. Amd haters are unrelenting with the attacks on the company its management and its technology. But Amd doesn't go away. I'm shocked that analyst would maintain earnings projections of close to a dollar a share and not have a buy recommendation on the stock. I own INTC also but the fact is that AMD has the largest share of the CPU market that its had in many years if not ever although I don't really know about the market a decade ago. The fact is also that the company is making a small profit. I wouldn't bet the house on the stock price because INTC is a fierce competitor but I really believe that at current prices this is a great spec.

To: Scumbria who wrote (47008)	1/22/1999 11:47:00 AM
From: kash johal	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571498

Scumbria, >Re Security etc. >Do you do a security investigation on every store clerk you hand >your credit card to? Check out their phone lines for digital >security? Make inquiries about the cleaning staff? Investigate the >security of the bank they are dealing with? >Online security issues for the average user can be handled in >software at a much higher security level than the in-person >transactions they are accustomed to. This issue is a non-starter for >Intel. I disagree with your analysis on this Scumbria. I agree that there are major privacy concerns with the on chip security for private citizens. However for corporate markets and e-commerce for more expensive items I think it's a pretty big deal. For example in my business we can download software that costs $50-$250K to try out for evaluation. With these hardware keys the license management become no problem. Also banking transactions for more than a few thousand dollars will almost necessitate this kind of security. IMHO Intel should have inrtoduced this technology into it's server/workstation class CPU's such as Xeons and forgot about it for the general consumer market. But that's just my opinion. AMD could make some hay, by spreading some FUD on this, but I doubt if they ever would. Regards, Kash