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William H. Geiger III (whgiii@openpgp.net)
Thu, 29 Apr 1999 09:07:14 -0500
One has to wonder if this is the actions of a company that is trustworthy
enough to supply RNG's to the community. IMHO it is not and I sincerely
hope support for the PIII is *not* included in /dev/random and/or IPSEC. I
will not be adding any support code in my software.
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>To: fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu
>From: "James S. Tyre" <j.s.tyre@cyberpass.net>
>Subject: Intel & Symantec v. ZKS?
Fascinating. Intel doesn't like ZKS' latest expose of PIII flaws, so it
has Symantec classify ZKS as a virus. Nice to have money and power, I
guess. What with McAfee Antivirus blocking www.digicrime.com and a few
others, do we have a newly emerging class of censorware?
-J
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/04/biztech/articles/29chip.html
April 29, 1999
Intel Goes to Battle as Its Embedded Serial Number Is Unmasked By JOHN
MARKOFF
SAN FRANCISCO -- When privacy advocates first sounded alarms in January
about a serial number that the Intel Corporation had embedded in its new
Pentium III processor, the company quickly responded by distributing
software that enabled owners of Pentium III computers to hide the number.
But it now appears that the problem is not solved and is not about to fade
away.
Recently a researcher at a small Canadian software company found a way to
make the serial number that has been hidden visible again to prying eyes
-- and without the owner's realizing it. Acting in what it says is the public interest, the company, Zero-Knowledge Systems of Montreal, placed a program on its Web site demonstrating the vulnerability.This time, Intel is responding more aggressively.
Earlier this month, an Intel executive called executives at the Symantec Corporation, maker of the popular Norton Antivirus software, and told them that the demonstration program was "hostile code."
Symantec agreed that the program fit its definition of a type of malicious program known as a Trojan horse, so it included the software in its continually updated list of dangerous programs, which include viruses, that cause warnings to pop up on its customers' computers.
Now users of the Norton antivirus software who visit the Zero-Knowledge site gets a warning that they are about to download a virus.
In this case, one man's virus is another's diagnostic tool.
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