the long term effect of hardcoding chips with so-called security features could reduce our precious anonymity in the future. why? because, each chip now becomes unique; thus, very trackable. imagine the government knowing the "random-noise" profile of each chip, and then, linking that with our email address, so that evey time we fire up ou computer online, they get a hit. eventually, they could figure out where we are at any given time, even on the road, because, the unique chip signature will tattle. this is intel + bigbrother.