Intel Wants To Charge $50 To Unlock Your CPU's Full Capabilities 832
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MBCook writes "Turnkey CPU upgrades aren't just for mainframes anymore. According to Engadget, OEMs (including Gateway) are selling computers with the Intel Pentium G6951, which can have extra cache and hyper-threading enabled through a $50 software unlock called Intel Upgrade Service."
Yeah, That'll Last (Score:4, Funny)
Crack coming out in 3...2...1...
Re:Step right up, place your bets (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I hope this doesn't fly ... (Score:1, Funny)
That sounds an awful like circumventing a digital rights management technology. Remember, you didn't buy a CPU, you bought a /license/ to use the CPU.
Re:Yeah, That'll Last (Score:5, Funny)
Intel Fanboys (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Similar experience at bestbuy (Score:5, Funny)
Fifteen enormous cocks raping every orifice in your body.
I couldn't describe hiring the geeksquad any better then that.
Ive seen this somewhere.... (Score:3, Funny)
Joe: Nah, i'll take my chances.
The rest is history...
Re:Yeah, That'll Last (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What's next, Windows only CPUs? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I hope this doesn't fly ... (Score:3, Funny)
Fuck em?
Re:I'm all for it (Score:1, Funny)
Sure, you will probably just have to short circuit two parts of the chip to set the bit to unlock it. All you have to do is remove the cpu case (Carefully!) and connect line 259 and 2051 with your 40nm probes. Don't push to hard or you will damage the chip.
There is no such thing as absolute security. But this is not necessarily a case where the value you get by hacking the device ougtweights the cost of doing so.
Absolute security is never worth the effort. Enough security is probably what you want and for that even obscurity will do the trick sometimes.