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Re: patent of the day
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Wed Jan 23 08:01:08 2008
Date: 23 Jan 2008 04:36:20 -0000
From: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <87zluxfccw.fsf@snark.cb.piermont.com>
Cc: perry@piermont.com
In article <87zluxfccw.fsf@snark.cb.piermont.com> you write:
>
>http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT6993661
Gee, the inventor is Simson Garfinkel, who's written a bunch of books
including Database Nation, published in 2000 by O'Reilly, about all
the way the public and private actors are spying on us.
I wonder whether this was research to see how hard it was to
get the PTO to grant an absurd patent.
R's,
John
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