Re: pIII Serial (or lack there-of)

Daniel.Egger@rz.fh-muenchen.de
Sat, 16 Oct 1999 16:48:41 +0200 (CEST)


On 13 Oct, Scott Marlowe wrote:

> There is one more use, in proving you own a computer if it is stolen.
> simple program on a bootable floppy could be used to determine the
> serial number of any computer's CPU. If you already have your PIII
> numbers registered somewhere, that's pretty compelling proof that this
> was once your CPU.

How likely is it that your computer gets stolen? Or even more, how
likely is it that you find it somewhere?
Or may I understand your mail as a proposal to register everyones
PC somewhere (going back to 1985....)

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Servus, Daniel

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