The end of anonymity on the Internet?

[anandk]

As the joke goes, on the Internet nobody knows you’re a dog.

"...Change, however, is on the way. Already over 20 million PCs worldwide are equipped with a tiny security chip called the Trusted Platform Module, although it is as yet rarely activated...but once activated...the TPM will do something never before seen on the Internet: provide virtually fool-proof verification that you are who you say you are.

The TPM chip was created by a coalition of over one hundred hardware and software companies, led by AMD, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Microsoft and Sun. The chip permanently assigns a unique and permanent identifier to every computer before it leaves the factory and that identifier can’t subsequently be changed..."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10441443/

[alok4best]

That wud be something really interesting..Bt I still think ppl will come out with some way to hide their identity on net.
Thanx for the news anyways.adding u some points.

[Pathik]

it can also mean the end of piracy in india .. which may lead to more people moving linuxwards...

[Kiran.dks]

Hmmm...something like genuine Spyware!

[47shailesh]

even the MAC address of Network card was hardcoded and supposed to be unique to identify the person from were the traffic is generated.... But sw like "amac" etc can even spoof outsiders with fake MAC address...

That TPM chip will be in show for few months and then will lost it's identity to against Human Brain

[santu_29]

but the TPM can be disabled.. right...