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McAfee Granted Firewall Patent

Posted by timothy on from the usual-absurdity dept.

BadUspto writes "BetaNews reports that 'The United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted software maker McAfee a patent for tracking network events on a computer using a firewall. The patent filing involves tracing the location of an incoming connection and displaying a map showing where the remote system geographically resides.' Doomsday for VisualRoute and others?"

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  1. It's official... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll


    The USPTO has jumped the shark, ceased to be useful, lost all insight, and generally become a bloated, monstrous, piece-of-shit government agency that only serves to rubber-stamp anything that comes across its desk that looks like it might make some corporation a dollar. They like the FCC without the leadership. Mothball it all and revoke the employees' government clearance... they're all clearly retarded.

    Suckass bitches.