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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (56873)	4/30/1999 2:14:00 PM
From: dumbmoney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570814

And if Microsoft responded to the Melissa virus by removing all macros in MS Office products, wouldn't that be strange as well? That's basically the argument of those who point to the program that Zero-Knowledge systems wrote and say that the Pentium III serial number should be banned. The purpose of the Zero Knowledge demo was to show that the utility-program method of securing the ID can be circumvented. Obviously, Zero Knowledge are not rogue for pointing out the flaws in Intel's security, and the demo program is not a virus. The question of whether the ID should be "banned" is a different one. I think it provides negative value. It's based on the idea that "the user is the enemy", which isn't a philosophy that appeals to me. Besides, the program can only get around the software switch which turns off the Processor ID. It still can't get around the BIOS switch that many computer vendors like IBM are implementing. That's correct.