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To: DownSouth who wrote (71903)	1/23/1999 9:34:00 PM
From: d[-_-]b	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

ATM, heck he doesn't even shop at Safeway they might track his purchases, then relay the info to his insurance company and they'll drop his policy. Hardware ID's are in all "real" workstations, it's called a hostid on Sun Sparc's and others from IBM, HP, etc. It's usually PROM based, but since Intel can't control that on every machine, silicon looks like a good place to put an ID. Should be great for large companies to do remote inventories, buyers to verify they are getting what they paid for, not some remarked chip. The benefits are great, for a web site to get the data Netscape/Microsoft would have to get it and feed it back over the web - not the computer itself. So watch Netscape or Microsoft if you're really worried about the ID.