-- On 2 Jul 2002 at 15:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In other words, when the MB is fried because of some freak > electrical surge, I'm screwed, because I can't put the HD into > another machine and get the data off it?
Only that data that you choose to associate with that specific computer. This is a very useful privacy protecting feature. Of course another use of that feature, more useful to large corporations and less useful to yourself is that those corporations can sell you programs and entertainment content that can only be read on that machine, and ceases to exist when that machines trusted chip is fried -- they can sell you data that will be associated with that particular computer, even though you would prefer it not to be so associated. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 8KpRBENoQKtlOVgNYunEkBsAkozcXsuf8zdGwPdq 2hetBbJ6k4/vezSEkl/kwNQeBMLsRrLE3f+cbtQvn --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]