First, if you took all the applications that read BIOS for some reason and printed their names, you would need to replace your ink cartridge before you were done. What makes this different? If BIOS reads were such a dangerous violation of privacy, how come any application can read it and as a limited user, since the PC stone age! If one wants to yell Fire in a crowded building, lets start by creating a list of applications that read BIOS, find out how many years they have been doing it, and make a list. I would be much more worried about the little yellow dots on your documents you printed on your printer than the master database of mother board numbers kept by the pentagon. One thing is for sure, this story just set back the possiblity of intelligent life forms stopping at this bus stop of a rock for at least 10 more years.