It's hilarious reading this 1999 article about the great blow we struck for freedom in getting the CPU serial number removed. Since then CPUs and the rest of ou

It's hilarious reading this 1999 article about the great blow we struck for freedom in getting the CPU serial number removed. Since then CPUs and the rest of our hardware have way more unique identifiable information embedded in the hardware. Not to mention dodgy random number generators and reprogrammable microcode enabling all sorts of hardware-level backdooring. But that's all low level, at the high level we all tolerate tracking HTTP cookies with a level of global surveillance Jeremy Bentham couldn't have dreamed of. The idea our computers should not be uniquely identifiable has long since flown out the window.