Reading Pentium III serial number (PSN)

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Reading Pentium III serial number (PSN) carl_r 02-08-2007
Posted by on February 8, 2007, 7:11 pm
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I know this is old, but there are a lot of these still around...

Zero-Knowledge Systems, who had a web page demonstrating reading the
(disabled) PSN, is gone, but Google search results are still saturated
with it. I can't find a web page that will try to determine a visitors
(disabled or not) PSN. Anybody know of one?

I tried to find an application that will display the PSN (when run
locally). I can't find one. Anybody know of one? (I found some java
code, but I don't think I need to learn how to compile and run java
programs for this, an already-executable application has to be
available somewhere.)

Thanks


Posted by Sebastian Gottschalk on February 8, 2007, 11:26 pm
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carl_r@mail.com wrote:

> I know this is old, but there are a lot of these still around...
>
> Zero-Knowledge Systems, who had a web page demonstrating reading the
> (disabled) PSN, is gone, but Google search results are still saturated
> with it. I can't find a web page that will try to determine a visitors
> (disabled or not) PSN. Anybody know of one?
>
> I tried to find an application that will display the PSN (when run
> locally). I can't find one. Anybody know of one? (I found some java
> code, but I don't think I need to learn how to compile and run java
> programs for this, an already-executable application has to be
> available somewhere.)

Reading the PSN requires native code, thus neither a Java application nor a
website are able to reas the PSN. Especially not if it's disabled.

I even once wrote a DOS utility in Assembler for this job. No, I didn't
keep it, since it was so trivial.

Posted by Andy Walker on February 9, 2007, 12:11 am
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carl_r@mail.com wrote:

>I can't find one. Anybody know of one?

Try this
http://mysearch.intel.com/support/default.aspx?q=pentium+III+PSN&id=&lang=eng&hidProductAlias=&as_q=pentium+III+PSN
or
http://tinyurl.com/2l9od3

Posted by traveler 66 on February 9, 2007, 1:09 am
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On 8 Feb 2007 16:11:02 -0800, carl_r@mail.com wrote:

> I know this is old, but there are a lot of these still around...
>
> Zero-Knowledge Systems, who had a web page demonstrating reading the
> (disabled) PSN, is gone, but Google search results are still saturated
> with it. I can't find a web page that will try to determine a visitors
> (disabled or not) PSN. Anybody know of one?
>
> I tried to find an application that will display the PSN (when run
> locally). I can't find one. Anybody know of one? (I found some java
> code, but I don't think I need to learn how to compile and run java
> programs for this, an already-executable application has to be
> available somewhere.)
>
> Thanks

A couple of months ago I was looking through the Microsoft site and came
accross a blurb about it along with a patch that either hides or reveals
the serial number. It's a Microsoft patch, it should still be there, do a
search on the site itself, I'm sure it will come up for you.

Posted by Scott B. on February 9, 2007, 2:21 am
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carl_r@mail.com wrote:
> I know this is old, but there are a lot of these still around...
>
> Zero-Knowledge Systems, who had a web page demonstrating reading the
> (disabled) PSN, is gone

Try the Internet Archive Wayback Machine:

http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

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