Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (47676)	2/17/1999 5:52:00 PM
From: yard_man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

How bout that security feature which uniquely identifies each chip when transmitting info to the net ... that went over like a lead balloon ...

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (47676)	2/17/1999 6:15:00 PM
From: Timothy Liu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Well at least we can sell it to Saddam so we can track him. IMO, the security feature will be a big plus going forward when commerce on the nnet develops. For example, right now you have to remember so many passwords to different sites and I bet many of them are the same. In effect, one of the site that has your password can try to get into other sites by guessing the password. The more site you register to the worse things get. ID on the CPU can help make things better. You may only need to remember the password to your local machine and the ID does the rest. One of my friends at Sun says it best. Most of the RISC vendors already have similar feature in their chips. But when the 'evil empire' does it, that's when everyone complains. :) Tim My 0.02$

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (47676)	2/17/1999 7:05:00 PM
From: Stefan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

I told you these black helicopters were for real.<g>

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (47676)	2/17/1999 10:00:00 PM
From: Jeff Leader	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Actually, I think Intel got a bum rap on the privacy issue. This feature should have been put in the PC architecture years ago. Software piracy could have been drastically reduced. Theft of intellectual property (software, music, research reports, whatever) becomes even more of a problem as the industry moves to a 'download from the net' distribution model. Most Unix systems (Suns, etc) have had a similar feature for years. Every Ethernet card has a similar feature. It's just become fashionable to bash Intel. BTW, I have never worked at Intel, nor do I own the stock.