I was just perusing through the latest junk mail from HP called:
"HP Computer News" (asking me to subscribe for so I can get the
"next 6 issues FREE!"

Among two things I noticed:

1.  No mention of the HP3000 platform.

EXCEPT ONE developers toolkit for BSAFE SSL-C security protocol.
(Oh yeah, I'm going to go out and buy one right now!)

2.  Just as insidious but more practical:

Since I spoofed you all with that chip-implant-that-tracks-you
the other day that Gavin Scott (IIRC) disproved mightily.  I
noticed a different article in this magazine on page 30 entitled:
"Wherever you go, there you are" that describes a product called
BadgePAD.  Similar in function to that "other" product mentioned
on Monday it lists on Page 31 three things that were similar
that it can track:

   1)  His/her identity
   2)  His/her location
   3)  His/her environment

(Unlike the bogus GPS transponder of the other product, this item
tracks you whenever you plug into the network, to quote:

"BadgePAD uses its communications interfaces and the location of
the access points it is communicating with to determine its
location."

Of course one must assume it is on a public network and not a
private one.  And who compiles the locations of all the "access
points" on the network anyway?  (I shudder to think who.)
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Of course being an HP publication, it is probably a lot more
reliable than that GPS item of Monday.

Tracy M. Johnson
TRW Automotive Electronics