"John Tomany" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[...] Last year, Intel announced that they would succumb
> to yet another of Microsoft's monoploy tactics, by inserting a
> serial number in their latest chips. They were astounded with the
> flood of "Not no, but HELL NO!" mail received against the proposal,
> and backed down. It actually boosted AMD's stock while Intel's
> dropped in price!)
The funny thing is that anyone attached to a Local-Area Network has a
globally unique address anyhow. Software could just as easily lock onto your
Ethernet MAC address as a CPU serial number, and the scheme would work
regardless of CPU type. You can override the address, but that introduces a
whole new set of issues. I've noticed that many new security schemes (not
copy protection) are using the network adapter as the 'key'.
- Bob
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