The CueCat is a cheap (actually given away in several places) barcode reader. The bundled software (for Mac and Windows) makes it possible to read a barcode printed in a catalog or a magazine and be forwarded to a relevant URL (at the same time giving them your serial number).This category covers both this and the efforts to write new software for the CueCat that performs other tasks as well as the controversies regarding this.
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CueCat

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  • CueCat At It Again
    Report and discussion on EULA change and legal conflict. [Slashdot]
  • 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]
  • 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]
  • :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]
  • 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.
  • 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]
  • 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.
  • 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]
  • A scanner darkly
    Can Wired's CueCat giveaway turn us into a nation of bar-code-reading clerks? By Scott Rosenberg [Salon.com]
  • 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]
  • 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]
  • Here's a Digit for You
    [Dallas Observer]
  • Privacy Concerns and The CueCat
    About the serial number and how to remove it. [Slashdot]

    • Web Search

  • CueCat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    URL : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat
    ... convert "cues" from television signals and the :Cuecat bar code reader into URLs. ... of the CueCat and its associated machine readable code to web ...[2008/11/20]
  • Using the Cue Cat Optical Reader to Catalog CED Titles
    URL : www.cedmagic.com/cuecat/cuecat.html
    This page explains how to use the Cue Cat bar code scanner to catalog CED titles by scanning the universal product code on the back of each CED caddy.[2008/06/05]
  • Readerware - CueCat Bar Code Reader
    URL : www.readerware.com/rwcuecat.html
    Bar Code. Great deals. CueCat® Symbol Portable. Flic Readers. C-Pen. Wand Readers. CCD Readers ... The CueCat® Bar Code Wand Reader ...[2008/11/12]
  • Hack your Cue Cat! Decrypt its output without special software, disable ...
    URL : www.cexx.org/cuecat.htm
    ... hacking to disable the CueCat's privacy-endangering GUID, and decrypt ... to it and boldly send it where no cat-shaped bar code reader has gone before. ...[2005/01/11]
  • CueCat barcode scanner
    URL : www.azalea.com/CueCat
    Information about the free CueCat bar code scanner page from Digital Convergence. ... It turns the CueCat into a free, general purpose bar code wand. ...[2008/10/31]
  • PS2 Cuecat Bar Code reader 3 pieces
    URL : www.mavin.com/index.php/products/ps2-cuecat-bar-code-reader-3-pieces
    ... modifications the CueCat could be made to work as a standard bar code reader. ... PS2 Cuecat Bar Code reader 100 pieces. USB Cuecat Single Units ...[2008/11/25]
  • CueCat postmortem
    URL : www.azalea.com/WhitePapers/CueCatPostmortem.pdf
    who's been intimately involved with bar codes for the last 12 years, I firmly ... transformed it into a free, general purpose bar code scanner. ...[2005/06/23]
  • :Cue Cat Bar Code Reader Privacy Advisory
    URL : si.umich.edu/~rfrost/courses/SI110/.../CueCat_&_PrivacyFoundation.pdf
    CueCat bar code reader. This handheld device, which is similar in ... The :CueCat bar code scanner connects to a PC by way of a cable that ...[2005/02/04]
  • CueCat software for cataloging CDs, DVDs, books and video games
    URL : www.collectorz.com/movie/cuecat_barcode_scanner.php
    Use the CueCat barcode scanner together with Collectorz.com software to ... Move the CueCat reader smoothly from left to right across the code in one fluent ...[2008/10/30]
  • CueCat Links Print Ads to Web
    URL : www.si.umich.edu/~rfrost/courses/SI110/readings/Privacy/CueCat.pdf
    ... on an accompanying bar code. That ... the accompanying bar code (known as a cue) with a CueCat, and your ... scan bar codes without using the official ...[2005/02/04]
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