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No More Internet Anonymity
inkhaton writes "This Article tells of an Orwellian chip that, once installed in your computer (and not by your choice), will allow any website you visit to "read" your identity. The article goes on to describe how many benefits there are for using this to facilitate online business and even suggests some negative points. It ends with "Ultimately the TPM itself isn't inherently evil or good. It will depend entirely on how it's used, and in that sphere, market and political forces will be more important than technology." ... ugh. Well we all know what that means."
Aren't we all Testuser from Beverly Hills, CA 90210 at test@aol.com?
Your computer may be broadcasting your IP address to the world as we speak! Or so I've heard.
Not inherently good or evil. But the evil potential is roughly 100 times the magnitude of the good potential.
My TPM will have the following information.
.. then I guess it's back to my C= 64...
Richard Cranium
9191919 Nunya Street
Overstock, MO 64999
901-555-5555
And if I can't do that
= Grow a brain...
How else will the Anti-Christ keep track of you, and keep you from buying or selling? However, the mark is supposed to be in your forehead or palm of your hand. OK implanted RFID chips then.
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Depends on how you use it. If I took the big german family bible my family keeps and beat someone to death with it, that would be bad. If I was in a plane crash in the Andes and used the Necronomicon to cook up dead passengers to save the living, that would be a good use.
Otherwise it's just bound paper sitting there until someone picks it up and does something with it.
It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
I can't look at porn anymore :(
I suggest we refer to this hardware cookie as a shit biscuit.
... selling desoldering stations, tin-foil hats and faraday-cage panic room kits ...
The Goatse image is inherently evil.
Or the 3117 [sic] haxor who used the latest TMP chip crack to change their TMP ID to be the same as yours, which they got from the worm that still can get installed on your machine...
Well I've heard of people misspelling words, but who'se heard of somebody misspelling a number? It's called 1337, dude.
He could have been going for 31173 (elite) and just missed the last 3, judging by the UID he was probably around before it was shortened.
Computers allow humans to make mistakes at the fastest speeds known, with the possible exception of tequila and handguns
I think he DID want to say ellt, in leet speech. Maybe I'm mistaken :P
Of Code And Men
Here I sit without mod points as something genuinely amusing floats by. Oh, well.
;-)
ObNit: There's no way "who'se" can stand in for the completely-devoid-of-the-letter-E phrase "who has." Spelling observations should be more carefully crafted.
I have the best ISP ever!
My isp is called 'linksys'
It has nation-wide coverage, and normally has great speeds!
1. It's '1337', not '3117'.
2. It's 'TPM', not 'TMP'.
Don't want you going around getting ridiculed.
someone who used your computer while they were over your house
Damn those wi-fliers!
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
It's the year 2100. The "GEEKS" live underground, running LINUX 2.8, the last release without mandatory DRM implemented. The GEEK population makes money by trading their cache of the last MOBOs (Late quad-cores) that do not have DRM to the "surface people". These machines are populated with bootleg copies of "Gilligan's Island" - The most popular show of the surface people... Pathetic...
My wife doesn't listen to me either...
"lol, this is not the mark of the beast!"
Don't drink tap water either, go for imported bottled water. It's the only way to avoid the mind-control drugs. Lucky I have a well outside my remote wooden shack in Montana so I'm okay.
-- Using the preview button since 2005
err.. what information would you require for me to jin this chuirch? Are a false name and a false social security nu,ber acceptable? Otherwise I ain't joining!
----------------------------------- My Other Sig Is Hilarious -----------------------------------
"It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works."
Not? No. Simply because I'll download a patch/update to my browser which will - given the query for the ID - return either any code I entered (for example the id of some damned politician, hehehe) or a new one every hour.
And these morons will waste a huge amount of time. And, as usual, all they'll catch are other morons.
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