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To: Paul Fiondella who wrote (76732)	3/18/1999 3:20:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

<Prior to the Intel CPU-ID it was not possible to track internet useage to a physical location without some pretty sophisticated technology. (See the case of Kevin Mitnick)> Mr. Fiondella, try again. First of all, how are you going to trace the processor serial number to a physical location? Someone can easily pack up his or her computer and move it elsewhere. Someone can also pick up a bunch of processors for real cheap and change his serial number any time he wants. Someone can also use various hacks and broadcast false serial numbers. How can a server trust that the serial number it is receiving really came from an actual CPUID instruction, and not from some hacker's utility? Next, you still haven't told me how the CPU serial number ushers in a whole new era of Big Brother. What about that ID in the Windows 95/98 OS? What about the serial number in Ethernet cards? What about e-mail headers, logs of people who logged onto a certain host on the Internet, telephone records, social security numbers, credit card numbers, license plates, etc., etc.? Now I'll agree with you that the serial number isn't the best form of Internet security out there. (By the way, you've been pushing Novell's Digital Me for a while now. Got any links? I can't find anything on Novell's Web site.) But neither will this serial number plunge this world into 1984. OK? Tenchusatsu