VIA KT400 Motherboard Roundup
Posted by Keldyn on 04 January 2003 - 06:52 · 1 comment & 91 views
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In July of this year, VIA technologies unveiled to the market its Apollo KT400 chipset quite unexpectedly. This just 6 months after the Apollo KT333 chipset had been released back in February; there were some mixed emotions with VIA's latest move. The KT333 chipset had gained a fair amount of respect and growth in the market and was the better solution for AMD users compared to VIA's counterparts. VIA knowing they had the greater market share for AMD chipsets should have let the KT333 chipset develop more maturely in the marketplace, while they were in the process of working on their next chipset, the KT400. Instead, they release a premature chipset which offers little increase in performance and features over the KT333 chipset which still claims to be very successful.
Courts may be sympathetic to snooping citizens because someone's driving patterns aren't a secret, Grossman said. "Common sense tells you that if I want to follow you in your car, there's no law against that. If I want to videotape where you're driving, that's fine, although it could cross the line into stalking."
But Douglas Crewse, a private investigator in the Dallas suburb of Flower Mound, Texas, said tracking devices could still leave private users open to charges of invasion of privacy, especially if state law is strict. What if a device tracks an errant spouse onto private property where trespassing is outlawed? What if hackers gain access to tracking data?
"I wouldn't touch a tracking device with a 10-foot pole," Crewse said. "Once you get caught, you're going to get nailed in civil court."
Or the consequences could be even worse. As attorney Lee Tien of the Electronic Freedom Foundation pointed out, tracking data could be subpoenaed.
If you drive your spouse's car, that could reveal something pretty sensitive -- your own travels in recent days.