[ubuntu-uk] Fct or Fiction. Survelance Paranoia

[Jim Kissel]

C L Chatfield wrote:
> I don't buy into "If you haven't done anything wrong then what have you got to worry about"
> What if "they" decide to do something wrong (which they do all the time).
> 
> Is it true that the intel chip (and presumably AMD) has a unique identifier that can
> be transmitted, and if so does Linux protect against this?

Yes:http://schneier.com/essay-187.html
No protection if you run spyware on Linux  ;-)


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