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Geo-Encryption: Global Copyright Defense?

Posted by chrisd on from the stay-right-where-you-are dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes: "CIO Insight has a story on the copyright-protection scheme devised by Georgetown professor Dorothy Denning. Geo-encryption uses GPS technology to keep information scrambled until it reaches a precise location anywhere in the world. Denning has started a new company, GeoCodex, to capitalize on the technology." I can't wait for the Crypto-Gram article about this one..

6 of 198 comments (clear)

  1. Re:geocaching! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yo, mod up "Don't bother with GPS" by October_30th (it's right above this post)! He's at -1, but it's a good point!

  2. Re:Good Lord by Hemos+(editor) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I just heard the sad, sad news >>
    Sun Microsystems Is Finalizing Plans To Purchase MandrakeSoft

    MandrakeSoft as we know them will surely be missed.

  3. Re:What a weird idea! by Hemos+(editor) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I just heard the sad, sad news >>
    Sun Microsystems Is Finalizing Plans To Purchase MandrakeSoft

    MandrakeSoft as we know them will surely be missed.

  4. so... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hot grits, first post, microsoft is god, Linus anally penetrates "teens",cmdrtaco "sleeps" with it's sister, anonymous cowards are always right

    and hemos doesn't go to safeway to get KY.

    I enjoy microwave popcorn, if you add garlic it's even more good

    English is a sucky language, i know some bad ones bad english sucks so much suck that it realy sucks

    Anyone else have blue teeth and purple toes?

    I hacked my xbos to run BSD because it's SO much better than Linux 7

    How about NASA, they might prove that antigravity does happen, I have the cat to prove it.

    The illuminati are real...oops I said to much

    I wish you would mark this:

    -5: off topic, inflamitory, and being a troll.

  5. Can't really tell... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wether this is just another april fools day joke or if it's just plain stupid...

  6. Does the US government get a SHARE of the profits? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    They did , after all, make this pissible.