patent of the day

[Peter Gutmann]

John Levine <johnl at iecc.com> writes:
>In article <87zluxfccw.fsf at 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.

It does seem a bit puzzling... could it be a defensive patent?  There were
MSDOS OTFE programs doing exactly this more than 15 years ago.

Peter.

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