Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: disabling Intel PSN | Date | Fri, 17 Dec 1999 20:43:05 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> That's not true. It only decreases security if you make the manual > part of the passphrase correspondingly shorter. As an *addition*, it > increases security. As a *replacement*, it decreases security.
Dangerous assumption. You now have known key plaintext.
> Although I personally disagree with (c), if a company has a product I > want I'd rather see them make it available on Linux with a dumb > license rather than not offer it at all.
Fortunately if you pick the right CPU's (eg the winchip) you can spoof the CPUID 8)
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