Location-Based Encryption

Posted by michael on Friday December 3, 2004 @02:34AM from the what-if-the-hub-goes-on-the-fritz? dept.

davidwr writes "Eweek reports Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has a new way to prevent theft of company secrets on stolen laptops: 'Wozniak offered a peek into his vision for the company on Ziff Davis Media's Security Virtual Tradeshow, where he introduced "wOz Location-Based Encryption," an application that uses GPS tracking within a wireless hub to encrypt and decrypt sensitive data for large businesses.' Today's encryption is good enough but I do like the tracking capability. Imagine your laptop screaming 'I'm being stolen! I'm being stolen!' and paging security as the janitor walks out the door with it."

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Re:Not totally secure? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-12-03 03:15 · Score: 0, Flamebait

I was like, "huh, aren't you supposed to tell me that?!".

You were 'like'? Expand your vocabulary a bit. You will find it, like, totally cool when you do. You can like be like very clear in communitcating your thoughts. You will be like "wow".
Re:Not totally secure? by nmg196 · 2004-12-03 04:44 · Score: 0, Flamebait

> Don't appologize.

If you're going to be pedantic, it's spelt: apologise or apologize.

> I'm assuming didn't actually speak to the device, correct?

(I'm assuming *you*...)

No I'm pretty sure I did actually say that out loud, but it was a rhetorical question.