>>yes but if someone records the CPU serial number
>Turn it off, then nobody can read it.
from what i have read the number can be turned on remotely, say you down load a web page with a java program the java program could turn on the number. but hey i have a 486 computer and wouldnt know high tech things like that on a 1st hand basis.
>I guess if you're doing something that would draw that type of attention,
>you could have a problem. But actually, it would be FAR easier to track
>you by IP address, and that is something every computer on the internet
>has.
correct!
but i didnt mean to imply that the person was a criminal. or had commited a crime. many times the police ASSUME that because your in the area of a crime that YOUR the criminal and the PIGS expect you to prove YOUR not GUILTY. (oppsite of the law). if something happened at a site and your CPU serial number was there the pigs might make the same assumption that because your CPU number was at the site there fore your a criminal.
kinda like the mill avenue incident when the pigs in tempe assumed because you guys had guns you were criminals. incorrect assumption on the pigs part but the pigs still fucked you over, violated your civil rights and wasted your time.