Comment by msylvest

In those days I worked for Intel in a branch in Copenhagen, Denmark. Doing Ethernet stuff, pretty far from the CPU dev and fab running the company. Incidentally Phil Zimmermann, maker of PGP, was in town, giving a lecture on privacy. I had the chance of asking him of his opinion; he reflected and said: "I think Intel has made a mistake." I agreed but didn't expect Intel mgmt to take action on this. And for a year I was right. In 2000, the serial numbers were quietly removed. Just to be re-added some years later....