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Privacy Demands Force Intel to Rethink Self-Identifying Pentium Chip.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, February, 1999 by Bedell, Doug
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Feb. 23 -- As computer processor giant Intel recently learned, the growing Internet audience takes its privacy very seriously, thank you.
Considerable dust has been raised in the last four years over a raft of issues. From "cookies" -- those little text files injected onto your hard disk by many Web sites -- to repeated government resistance to encryption measures that could guarantee security for online transmissions, these skirmishes have been ferocious.
The latest bluster comes with the release of Intel's Pentium III, which was set up to identify itself with an electronic serial number upon request, ostensibly to help track activity inside corporations' computer networks. However, consumer groups and...
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