David Brodbeck wrote:
> I remember when Intel started shipping processors with
unique ID
> numbers. There was much weeping and gnashing of teeth as
open-source
> proponents and privacy advocates declared that this would
lead to the
> end of civilization as we know it.
Yup, remember being twitchy about that.
> In reality, it was a huge non-event;
> no software I know of uses it,
So nobody uses it,
> and every system I've ever seen has
> shipped with the processor ID disabled.
you've got to turn it on to use it,
> Even companies that make
> corporate software, who tend to be more into copy
protection than most,
> seem to have mostly ignored it
and it's ignored.
It was a non-event because said weeping and gnashing led
to it being unused, _not_ because its uses would be benign.
It's my pleasure to have helped prevent you from finding
out just how bad those uses could be. :-)
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