Remember "proof of location", and fancy schemes we crypto people would come up with that were based on network delay / speed of light calculations? Turns out people are looking into using that stuff.... for export control of AI chips

Remember "proof of location", and fancy schemes we crypto people would come up with that were based on network delay / speed of light calculations? Turns out people are looking into using that stuff.... for export control of AI chips

https://www.iaps.ai/research/location-verification-for-ai-chips

This is nothing but a roundabout way to enforce "you will own nothing and be happy". 

If the hardware depends on being able to phone home to function, you don't own it - The company does. 

Ideas like these should be nuked out of existence.