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CVS Disposable Camcorder Hacked

Posted by timothy on from the intentionally-left-blank dept.

ptorrone writes "We've been watching this on MAKE closely- and the king of the one-time digital camera hacks/analysis finally got his hands on a CVS Camcorder on Friday, the 24th via someone shipping him one FedEx. Within 18 hours, he had slurped the flash memory and has the unencrypted, XVID codec, 320x240, 30fps movies stored in the camera on his computer."

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  1. The question is... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...do they completely reformat the flash every time one of these is returning for processing. This could become a strange form of voyeurism.

  2. Re:Oh, the humanity. by morcheeba · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I figured someone would criticize me. You're seeing low-res version for slashdot - sorry, bandwidth trumps aesthetics today. Tomorrow the pretty pictures will go back up.

    Check the file sizes:
    -rw-r--r-- 38000 Jun 24 21:09 PICT0001-info.png
    -rw-r--r-- 13343 Jun 25 12:36 PICT0001-info.jpg
    -rw-r--r-- 10958 Jun 25 12:38 camcorder-icon-full.jpg
    -rw-r--r-- 2334 Jun 25 12:38 camcorder-icon.jpg
    -rw-r----- 4547 Jun 25 13:02 index.html
    -rw-r----- 23960 Jun 25 13:25 flash.html

    My low-res pictures are 13k vs 38k, and 2.3k vs 11k. Overall, loading flash.html is 40k instead of 73k. That means (roughly) 80% more visitors for the same bandwidth!

    I also tried GIF and TIFF - they were pretty close in size to the original PNG.

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