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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bruce A. Thompson who wrote (47178)	1/24/1999 10:40:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 1570574

Bruce - Re: " Privacy isn't important. Not as important as, say, the right of every software maker being able to call up Intel and find out who is using their software and if they all have paid for it. Hey, if I put a tap on your phone and monitored every call you make, that would be OK. Wouldn't it? I mean, I would just use the information to put together a long distance product to sell you. I mean, that would be OK. Wouldn't it? Unless, of course, you called someone on my private list of software pirates. Then I would be duty bound to tell the proper authorities. But that would be your own fault because you aren't entitled to privacy anymore. How about I monitor your checking account and notify you if you were getting close to running out of money. I mean, both you and the bank would appreciate that. Wouldn't you? And hey, I could probably call it research into packaging a "Value Added" product to sell your bank. And, if by accident, I found out you were sending $9,000 checks out of the country? Hey, that would be your own fault. Wouldn't it. Better yet, how about I hire some private detectives to follow your wife around in the mall to look over her sholder and monitor which credit card she was using and where she shopped? Hey, all I would be trying to do is sell you a better credit card. That would be OK. Wouldn't it? I mean, you don't seem to be upset that Intel is trying to take away some more of your privacy. Hell, I bet you have a camera mounted in the mirror over your dresser. I bet you get home from work and go in your bedroom and show your ID card to the camera before you sit down to dinner. Do you feel safe doing that? {====================================} You have confirmed the real issue - Intel's CPU ID has about as much chance of being abused for privacy as the EXISTING PRIVACY INVASIONS THAT YOU SPELLED OUT THAT ALREADY EXIST TODAY. Paul