Re: pIII Serial (or lack there-of)

Rene Chaddock (renec@zorro.adsl.pangea.ca)
Sat, 16 Oct 1999 17:22:09 -0500 (CDT)

I've known people who have gotten their car stereo stolen, and then seen
somebody else with it - but they couldn't 'prove' it was theirs (ie. they
didn't know their own serial numbers..)

Its quite likely this could happen with computers. Especially if a
company, say, wants to know the PIII ID. (they get broken into, a lot of
computers hit the black market, etc.)

Rene

On Sat, 16 Oct 1999 Daniel.Egger@rz.fh-muenchen.de wrote:

> 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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