I was making a point. Okay IP ADDRESS It's only a matter of time. Your CPU has an electronic ID. Your OS is running a TCP/IP stack, you are on the net. How many lines of code in your BIOS would it take to report this ID to INTEL over the net? In the future when you buy a new PC you have to fill out a registration card to keep your warranty this CPU ID number is included with other information like your snail address. If the FEDS want to find you they call INTEL and check to see if you purchased a computer. The FEDS then get a log from intel when you have connected from the net and from where.. Do you see a pattern here? a 1984 or something? Does clipper chip ring a bell..?
With everyone connected it's only a matter of time until your IP addy (or other electronic tag) will be as tracable as a telephone number. How can we protect our privacy. One idea might be a chip swap in a back alley somewhere... But wait, the chips will have GPS tracking built in..:p
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I don't want to start a flame war here. My posts are a hypothetical situation.
Any hole in a system that is open to private information will be exploited.....
I was making a point. Okay IP ADDRESS It's only a matter of time. Your CPU has an electronic ID. Your OS is running a TCP/IP stack, you are on the net. How many lines of code in your BIOS would it take to report this ID to INTEL over the net? In the future when you buy a new PC you have to fill out a registration card to keep your warranty this CPU ID number is included with other information like your snail address. If the FEDS want to find you they call INTEL and check to see if you purchased a computer. The FEDS then get a log from intel when you have connected from the net and from where.. Do you see a pattern here? a 1984 or something? Does clipper chip ring a bell..?
With everyone connected it's only a matter of time :p
until your IP addy (or other electronic tag) will be as tracable as a telephone number. How can we protect our privacy. One idea might be a chip swap
in a back alley somewhere... But wait, the chips will have GPS tracking built in..