Location-Based Encryption

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."

Or other more malign actions

[_the_bascule]

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

Alarms

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

[mothz]

Zztxt Flrqtp fnz p47eltnzd.

Oh, I'm sorry, you need to move two steps to the left.

I can see the error messages now...

[Elphin]

Error! Unable to open file!

In order to open this file you must move 3 metres northwest of your present position

Re:Not totally secure?

[stupidfoo]

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

Re:Why must it always be "the janitor"??

[deletedaccount]

Why must it always be "the janitor"?? It's not always the janitor, sometimes it's the butler instead.

Re:Not totally secure?

[nmg196]

Sorry - I've just watched Finding Nemo and those turtles must have really got to me :)

Re:Not totally secure?

[Mr Guy]

Don't appologize. It's not your fault you were using slang that actually does mean what you were trying to convey. I'm assuming didn't actually speak to the device, correct?

So in other words, you inclined to feel as though the machince should be telling you. Or perhaps your feelings could be described as resembling the emotions that sentence expressed. I think you'll find that's what the word like means, regardless of whether that's an encouraged sentence structure.

If you feel I'm wrong, explain to me what's fundamentally different about the following sentences, besides using a sentence to describe the feeling instead of direct simile:

I was like a cloud.
It was like a state of total weightlessness.
It made me feel like I buzzing around.
I was like, "Wow, I'm a cloud".