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SubjectRe: disabling Intel PSN
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Bill Wendling wrote:

> } Has anyone thought of adding a feature of disabling the infamous
> } Intel Pentium III processor serial number, which any application
> } can get using CPUID instruction?

> } /proc/sys/kernel entry

> Sounds like a grand idea to me.

Under Linux, the PSN is just disabled. It's not a useful feature,
nor is it useful information, so it is turned off a boot time, not
to be reenabled.

Matthew.


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