Austin Hill wrote:
>
> So if I want to visit e-commerce sites from one of my 6 machines (Which
> include a Macintosh, Sun and 4 Pentium's/Pentium Pro's) after having visited
> with my new P3 I'll not be able to get access? Chat rooms, corporate
> extranets and ecommerce sites such as Amazon are now going to turn away
> customers who aren't using the same PC all the time?
>
> This is a stupid way to build authentication. Lugging around my desktop PC
> to authenticate myself is not intelligent. You would think Rainbow, Intel
> and others would stop throwing around the bogus claims that this is good for
> theft prevention and authentication. The only real practical use is for
> corporate IS managers to manage inventory (Which can be done otherways) and
> reduce cost of ownership, and also to enforce per processor software
> lisensing. All this talk about ecommerce and theft prevention is bogus.
You forgot the other side of the coin: i.e. padlocking my processor to
prevent my colleagues/wife/children/cleaner from spending all my money
is also a nonstarter. Especially since it seems I can't...
Cheers,
Ben.
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