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To: Paul Fiondella who wrote (72472)	1/29/1999 4:01:00 PM
From: Gerald Walls	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Default-off So you are saying that the bios controls whether it is on or off. That doesn't remove it from the computer. What the bios can read enable, other software can as well. Correct me. In Intel's press releases before the fuss they said that the default state was on and that, for security reasons, changing that state would require a reboot. Now they say the default will be off. Changing that state will still require a reboot. Consider yourself corrected.

To: Paul Fiondella who wrote (72472)	1/29/1999 4:26:00 PM
From: John Hull	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 186894

OTOTOTOTOTOTOTOTOTOTOTOTOTO Paul, This really is a perfect topic for you to resurface and be posting on. It meshes so well with your pre-disposition toward paranoid dilusion. In this case it is warranted because, you caught us, the whole processor number thing was done after a request from Mother Teresa, posthumously delivered (you probably would believe in this too), that all your activites be monitored. We actually got into this pretty late, others have been at it for a long time. Everybody knows Sun already includes an id in their chips. Not worried because you use a computer with another company's processor in it? That's OK, cause the best part is that they've been in on it with us all along. They've been our closest helper actually. Engel, that networking OS company, Jill from Silicon Investor, a variety of chip vendors, your phone company, Orin Hatch, a half dozen local merchants in your area, 3 of your high school teachers, the girl you took to the prom (she insisted on being paid in cash) and the kid who lived next door to you back in '74 all helped. I guess that makes you a pretty special guy. You should be proud. Oh and just because I've moved on from IR doesn't mean I'm not still watching you. We're all watching you. Right now. regards, jh