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To: Chris Carlson who wrote (76477)	3/16/1999 4:07:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Respond to of 186894

Chris, I've never heard of this company "Sun Microelectronics". Are you familiar with them? How is it that they are so aware of how HP feels about Merced? "Sun Microelectronics" is the branch of Sun which builds their processors and chipsets. They are located close to Paul's house on Mary and Evelyn in Sunnyvale. IBM also has a division called "IBM Microelectronics". Scumbria

To: Chris Carlson who wrote (76477)	3/16/1999 4:21:00 PM
From: Paul Fiondella	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

For those who doubt that the PIII CPU-ID will harm anyone Moscow Times March 16, 1999 EDITORIAL: Beware FSB Surveillance Of Internet In a master control room in the bowels of the Lubyanka, teams of FSB agents spend their days intercepting private correspondences sent via the Internet between friends, lovers, business partners, politicians. And there is no one watching the watchers. It's a disturbing idea. And as Jen Tracy reports in Business Extra on Page 15, it is well on its way to becoming a reality. A new regulation known as SORM-2 is under review at the Justice Ministry, awaiting minor tweaks before its eventual enactment. This regulation would allow the Federal Security Service, or FSB, to conduct real-time monitoring of every e-mail message, credit card transaction and web page sent or received in Russia. The SORM-2 arrangement would have this information piling up in FSB computers. In theory, the FSB would need a warrant to look at any of it; in practice, however, the FSB has already demanded such information from Internet service providers without warrants, so there is no reason to expect particular compliance with the constitution on that point. The U.S. government already monitors international e-mail traffic through the National Security Administration, and the NSA's legal authority to do so seems equally dubious. But at least the NSA, unlike the FSB, has never been accused of selling the information gathered for use as political kompromat or using it to blackmail prominent businessmen. Nor, for that matter, does the NSA trace its roots to that of a Soviet secret police organ that tortured and killed. The SORM-2 proposal also calls for Internet service providers themselves to lay out the thousands of dollars it will likely cost to install the surveillance hardware the FSB needs. Providers will pass on the cost of this hardware to the consumers in the form of a 15 percent cost hike - which means Internet users will pay more for the pleasure of being spied upon. That Internet service providers are a bit timid in leading the fight against SORM-2 is not surprising - the FSB can just pull the licenses of troublemakers and shut down their businesses. But SORM-2 ought to be derailed, and providers should be encouraged to do more. For starters, providers could indeed dump old stored e-mails from their computers. These e-mails are stored as a byproduct of programs that track each Internet user's web hits - but those programs could also be rewritten to be more selective. Providers have no business storing old e-mails for long periods of time - only so the FSB can come along and demand to read them. ******* I hope that makes it clearer to everyone just what the problem is with the Intel PIII CPU-ID. The FSB is the successor to the KGB.