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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..

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  1. Old by Introspective · · Score: 1, Troll

    Uhh, guys I submitted this story last November and it was rejected. Now I'm not complaining about being rejected, but this story is really OLD, and the concept is a long way from being proven to be practical or even remotely possible.


    * 2001-11-22 21:35:54 New encryption technology : Geo-Encryption (articles,encryption) (rejected)