No biggie for the pirates, I'm sure. They'll simply find the updates on a
torrent or eMule.

Adios,
Tony

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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thane Sherrington
Sent: Wednesday, 27 July 2005 4:22
To: The Hardware List
Subject: Re: [H] MS gets nosy

At 03:13 PM 26/07/2005, Ben Ruset wrote:
>When you put a whitebox system up on Windows Update, presumably all they 
>will see would be Award/Phoenix/etc. BIOS and perhaps (I sort of doubt it) 
>the motherboard manufacturer.

They'd get the manufacturer and model from the BIOS id string (look at the 
bottom of the screen at the initial POST screen, and you can see the data 
there.

T 


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