From: "Geo." 

How about keeping vendors from locking an install to a specific hard drive?

Geo. (I know I'd sleep better)

"Rich"  wrote in message news:45b17a15$1{at}w3.nls.net...
   OK.  Let's.  What is the security benefit?

Rich

  "mike"  wrote in message
news:roi2r2tar9bjm2h4i1rdkpbsuln53vj65l{at}4ax.com...
  >There was an issue with the SIL 3114 driver that caused the disk
  >serial number to be reported as different each boot


  Imagine if that were done intentionally for security reasons?

   /m

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