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Ritz Disposable Digital Camera Hacked

Posted by simoniker on from the click-click-boom dept.

morgue-ann writes "The $10.99 Dakota reusable digital camera announced in July was usefully hacked on November 6. First attempts to extract picture data took 10 hours to read out 16MB, but new code for Linux and Mac and Windows lets you get pictures quickly over USB and view or print them without Ritz's help (and with fewer of your $$)."

12 of 542 comments (clear)

  1. What... by Stile+65 · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...no secret Ritz crackers on the inside?

    I want my money back.

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  2. Damn, damn, damn, damn! by Speare · · Score: 4, Funny
    Damn, damn, damn, damn! Damn, damn, damn, damn! Damn, DAMN, damn, damn!

    I was just at Walgreens last night to try to find one of these suckers (who offer a different packaging, but same concept and circuitry). They didn't have them. I was going to go to a couple area Ritz to see if they had them. But noooooo. Slashdot broke the story and now Ritz will yank them off the shelves or others will grab them first.

    Damn, damn, damn, damn! Damn, damn, damn, damn! Damn, damn, damn, damn!

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  3. Who didn't see this coming? by Trillian_1138 · · Score: 3, Funny
    Serriously. Could you please raise your hand?

    . . .

    . . .

    Anyone?

    . . .

    . . .

    Wait, do I see one in the back? Yes? Care to explain yourself?

    . . .

    . . .

    Ahh. Well, we have one guy in the back who was in a coma. Anyone else not see this coming?

    . . .

    . . .

    As I thought.

    -Trillian

  4. Gotta put one in my time capsule by mackman · · Score: 4, Funny

    of failed business plans, right next to my collection of mint condition CueCats.

  5. Woo hoo! by AussieBastard · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now you won't have to get all embarrassed taking your home-made digital pr0n pictures back to the store for processing!

  6. Dumb Joke by Anne_Nonymous · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's not a Ritz hacker, that's a Ritz Cracker!

  7. Ritz has a history of being hacked by Bendebecker · · Score: 4, Funny

    Starting when someone sucessfully extracted the cheese from the middle of two ritz crackers. It was the first time in history that crackers sucessfully cracked other crackers, though I hear a few tried too hard and went 'crackers'.

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  8. Re:Cheap Digital Camera by telstar · · Score: 4, Funny
    "So basically now for 10 bucks I can get a 2 megapixel camera... well looks like i just wasted 200 bucks on getting a 4 megapixel camera."
    • Return it and duct tape two of these things together.

  9. Can't ,,,re,,sist by Libertarian_Geek · · Score: 5, Funny

    That would make the hackers, Ritz Crackers.

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  10. Re:Film disposables couldn't be reused.. by BillX · · Score: 2, Funny

    What, make the digital camera film wind backwards?

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  11. Re:obligatory Seinfeld quote by Dick+Faze · · Score: 2, Funny

    Not that there's anything wrong with that.....

  12. Slashdot: news for lawyers, litigation that matter by jacken · · Score: 2, Funny

    I read the article and hoped to find some insightful comments regarding hacking hardware and cameras. Instead almost every post is about DMCA and legal ramifications of hacking the camera.

    Has Slashdot changed direction without me noticing? Is it now for lawyer wannabes instead of hackers?