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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Or other more malign actions by _the_bascule · 2004-12-03 02:37 · Score: 5, Funny

paging the boss, 'he's going home! he's going home!'

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Alarms by Anonymous Coward · 2004-12-03 02:38 · Score: 5, Funny

What if they had that for cars? Imagine someone tries to steal one and an alarm goes off! Everyone will pay attention and call the police right away. Car theft will be a thing of the past for sure...
Zztxt Flrqtp fnz p47eltnzd. by mothz · 2004-12-03 02:39 · Score: 4, Funny

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Oh, I'm sorry, you need to move two steps to the left.
Re:Not totally secure? by stupidfoo · 2004-12-03 03:05 · Score: 5, Funny

When a laptop screams 'I'm being stolen! I'm being stolen!' and no one can here it, is it really making noise?