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CueCat PAM Module for Linux
- The pam_cuecat module reads decoded bar codes from /dev/scanners/cuecat, looks up the username:barcode_type:barcode line in /etc/cuecatpasswd, and returns whether or not this user has been authenticated.
Killing your Cat -- Your Guide to Catricide
- A humorous protest of Digital Convergence's CueCat product featuring satirical parodies of ads and their license agreement plus alternate uses/gratuitous destruction of the controversial barcode scanner.
CueCat Rollout Proceeds Amid Debate
- Bar codes for Internet scanners called CueCats made their latest debut in print Sunday in The Dallas Morning News, even as the creators of this new technology grapple with concerns about privacy and ease of use. [Washington Post]
(October 2, 2000)
CueCat Goes After Online Barcode Database
- Just noted that CueCat is going for this year's Useless Legal Action Beanie by going after www.upcdatabase.com, a site that is storing UPC codes and allows people to look them up. [Slashdot]
(September 28, 2000)
CueCat At It Again
- Report and discussion on EULA change and legal conflict. [Slashdot]
(September 26, 2000)
Will privacy kill the CueCat?
- Concerns about its data-collection practices threaten Digital:Convergence's plans to roll out 50 million of the bar-code scanners by 2002. [ZDNet]
(September 22, 2000)
Here's a Digit for You
- [Dallas Observer]
(September 21, 2000)
Privacy Concerns and The CueCat
- About the serial number and how to remove it. [Slashdot]
(September 21, 2000)
Digital Convergence Changes EULA, and Gets Cracked
- Apparently Digital Convergence has changed their EULA. This EULA has been modified to include the CueCat reader in an attempt to shutdown those tinkering with their cats. [Slashdot]
(September 18, 2000)
A scanner darkly
- Can Wired's CueCat giveaway turn us into a nation of bar-code-reading clerks? By Scott Rosenberg [Salon.com]
(September 15, 2000)
More on the :CueCat
- The :CueCat is a classic example of a broken business model. One can no longer (if, indeed, one ever could) put out a piece of hardware with the expectation that people will not seek to improve its operation with new software. [Linux Weekly News]
(September 14, 2000)
:CluelessCat?
- Thanks to a (previously) little-known company called "Digital Convergence," we now have our latest attack on the right to program. [Linux Weekly News]
(September 7, 2000)
Barcode Maker Responds After Forcing Drivers Offline
- Digital Convergence responds to the flak that they've taken after demanding that several developers take drivers offline that work with their "CueCat" barcode reader. [Slashdot]
(September 5, 2000)
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