On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 00:50 -0400, Ivan Krstić wrote: > David Woodhouse wrote: > > I remember a lot of noise and pointless paranoia, but no actual _mess_. > > A lot of noise and pointless paranoia over something with no practical > benefits and plenty of abuse potential sure as hell qualifies as a mess > in my book. There was a tremendous amount of consumer and media backlash > including a request for a formal FTC investigation.
Well, it was an Intel chip. Of _course_ it was a mess :) But 'consumer and media backlash' happens over a lot of pointless and irrelevant things, while simultaneously _not_ happening in other situations where it really should. Media fuss isn't really a good metric of anything but media fuss. Are we going to hide MAC addresses too? I've heard some of the tinfoil hat contingent witter about how those could lead the black helicopters to you too¹. -- dwmw2 ¹ I offer http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/OrbitalLaserFiringNeeded as a challenge to those who believe that particular crap, btw. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
