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..."
*www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10441443/
"...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..."
*www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10441443/
.. which may lead to more people moving linuxwards... 
