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                Date: 1999-01-31
                 
                 
                Intels Spitzelchips: Ruf nach Rückruf
                
                 
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      q/depesche  99.1.31/1 
uppdating     99.1.26/1 
 
Intels Spitzelchips: Ruf nach Rückruf 
 
EPIC & die übrigen Jakobiner verlangen vor der Federal Trade  
Commission nun, dass Intel schon ausgelieferte Prozessoren  
zurückrufen muss. Die automatische Identifikation soll in der  
Hardwarde direkt deaktiviert werden. 
 
Hinter  Intels Prozessor/identifikation steckt ein ziemlich  
dreist/kluger Plan, um die totalitären  
Registrierungs/interessen der Software/produzenten  
durchzusetzen. Die Hardware-ID macht dazu Cookies  
überflüssig & offenbar wird, was die dynamischen IP- 
Adressen des Dial-up immer noch verbergen. 
 
post/scrypt: Wer ungefähr weiss, welchen Marktanteil Intel  
hat, möge trotzdem keinen versauten Sonntag haben. 
 
post/post/scrypt: Diese ist q/depesche Nummer 502 seit  
2.April 1998. Die Zahl Subscribent/inn/en ist auf 1605  
angestiegen. 
Quali- & Quantität der Liste stehen in kausalem  
Zusammenhang damit, dass die Subscribent/inn/en aufs  
Erfreulichste scribieren. 
 
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Jeri Clausing 
Saturday January 30, 1999 WASHINGTON -- 
 .... 
In response to the boycott, Intel announced that the  
company would alter the software that turns the identification  
feature on and off, but the privacy groups said that solution  
was inadequate. So Intel executives flew to Washington for a  
meeting Thursday where they defended the alteration, saying  
it gives consumers both choice and control. 
 
"They met with us for almost two hours," said Marc  
Rotenberg, director of EPIC. "We decided after the meeting  
that we would actually extend the boycott." 
 
"There are two specific things we want: We want them to  
agree to remove the processor serial number from any future  
Pentium III chip, and we want them to agree to recall all  
processors shipped with the processor serial number  
enabled." 
 
The privacy advocates then headed to the FTC to plead their  
case for a recall of the chip, which Intel confirmed is already  
being shipped to computer makers.  
...  
Chuck Mulloy, a spokesman for Intel, said ...we left the  
meeting with a commitment from them that they would think  
about what we said." 
... 
Intel is the world's largest computer chipmaker with $26.2  
billion in sales last year.  
... 
Over the weekend, EPIC, Junkbusters and Privacy  
International, began discussions about a boycott of Intel. On  
Monday, as the protest was announced, the company said it  
would alter software in the system so that the serial number  
was disabled unless the computer user voluntarily turned it  
on. 
... 
"They explained the software approach and we think it is  
impractical and unworkable.....Rotenberg said. "We need a  
hardware solution to a hardware problem. I think they were a  
little surprised... We went through a couple of interesting  
scenarios, which made it quite clear that the PSN [processor  
serial number] is definitely going to be used in common  
applications on the Internet. People were going to be asked  
to identify themselves with the PSN." 
 
full text 
http://search.nytimes.com/search/daily/bin/fastweb?getdoc+site+iib-site+50+0 +wAAA+privacy 
 
relayed by 
ispi4privacy@earthlink.net 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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published on: 1999-01-31 
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