Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 16 Oct 1999 17:22:09 -0500 (CDT) | From | Rene Chaddock <> | Subject | Re: pIII Serial (or lack there-of) |
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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....) > > -- > > Servus, > Daniel > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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