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A comment on Notice of Stolen EVGA GeForce RTX 30-Series Graphics Cards. Parent comment

Re:Notice of Stolen EVGA GeForce RTX 30-Series Graphics Cards by amelius on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @07:06PM (#29101674)
> You don't even need a network card, much less a network connection

Well, NVidia could require these, and make your card phone home every X minutes.

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Re:Notice of Stolen EVGA GeForce RTX 30-Series Graphics Cards by trompetenaccoun on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @09:16PM (#29102624)
Dear NVidia engineers and execs: Don't even think about it!
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Re:Notice of Stolen EVGA GeForce RTX 30-Series Graphics Cards by ClumsyPilot on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @10:43PM (#29103140)
"NVidia could require these, and make your card phone home every X minutes."

You mean treat my entire computer as it's NVidia's property and make it do what it wants? I really hope that would be illegal.

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Re:Notice of Stolen EVGA GeForce RTX 30-Series Graphics Cards by amelius on Thursday November 04, 2021 @05:50AM (#29105151)
My network socket isn't Apple's property, yet Apple phones home for every application I start.
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