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Location-Based Encryption

Posted by michael on 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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  1. Re:Easy to overcome... by Lonesome+Squash · · Score: 0, Redundant
    3. Try every possible cryptographic key to read the contents of the drive.

    4. ?

    5. Profit!

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