Oh for frigs sake...

Not again... How many people are gonna sue Apple for using small bits of their tech that could have been gotten by Apple through their own research. I say we put a limit on suing, so that only if the source code is 80% ripped off then you can sue. Just a suggestion...

There should be a whole sub-section of this forum for the amount of times Apple is in a lawsuit. And garbage ones at that

Good luck with this one:

United States Patent 5412730

Abstract:

A modem suitable for transmitting encrypted data over voice-grade telephone line. The modem is implemented by the combination of integrated circuit components including a microprocessor, a serial communications controller which communicates with connected data terminal equipment, and a modulator/demodulator for translating between voice band tone signals and digital data. Pseudo random number generators are employed at both the transmitting and receiving stations to supply identical sequences of encryption keys to a transmitting encoder and a receiving decoder. An initial random number seed value is made available to both stations. The random number generators are advanced at times determined by predetermined characteristics of the data being transmitted so that, after transmission has taken place, the common encryption key can be known only to the transmitting and receiving stations.

The first post in each of these threads should be, "The following people know nothing about the patents involved or the law, but have strong opinions about them nonetheless."

Switching keys during the conversation has been standard since *long* before 1995 (although the most common protocol that uses that technique - IPSEC - wasn't a standard until 1998)

If they're talking about the existance of random keys as being in violation.. well SSH does that, which may or may not be prior art, depending on the date of filing.

I don't see what apple has to do with this. They're in violation for using HTTPS? Then so am I, and so are.. half the companies in the world?

Of course it's just a Patent Troll.. that's why they filed in Texas.

This is great, just found my patent of the Wheel. You people owe me big!!!

You know what I wish? I wish that AI would make it automatic that once they inform us about one of these suits that they be required to follow up on it to its conclusion. It seems I read a lot more reports about the filing of such suits than I do about their dispositions. The Psystar matter is about the only one that gets updated.