Hardware security in PCs to accompany new Windows

[Peter]

On Thu, 19 May 2005, Henry Spencer wrote:

> On Thu, 19 May 2005, Peter wrote:
>> Why is a lockdown to hardware better knowing that todays hardware is not
>> expected to last 2 years of continuous operation ? A dongle or chipcard
>> can be pulled and put into the followup machine...
>
> It would not surprise me in the slightest if the Official Microsoft Specs
> required that the identifying hardware *not* be removable.  Chairman Bill
> is not interested in making your life easy.

What is 'removable' ? Let it sit there, under Linux it could be put to 
good use providing salt and entropy for cryptography. Or just ignore it 
and use better algorythms.

Peter
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