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They have individual ID's!!!!

On: Free Barcode Reader From Radio Shack

I went to radio shack and bought three (2.95 for the catalog including scanner). Each of them seems to have an ID! Look at the scans!!

Here are scans of three different products using the same scanner:

.C3nZC3nZC3nYDNn6ENr1CxnX.fHmc.C3DZCxPWCNz2DNv7.
.C3nZC3nZC3nYDNn6ENr1CxnX.aabI.y2nIy2z7.
.C3nZC3nZC3nYDNn6ENr1CxnX.bNn7.C3f6Chj2DNy.

Here are three scans of the same product using three different scanners:

.C3nZC3nZC3nYDNn6ENr1CxnX.ahb6.eaya.
.C3nZC3nZC3nYDNf2CxrXCxnX.ahb6.eaya.
.C3nZC3nZC3nYDNj1C3b7CxnX.ahb6.eaya.

Note the .ahb6.eaya. is always the same. It seems to represent the product. But the .C3nZC3nZC3nYDN******CxnX. is different each time!!

They might use the indiviual ids to track them! It's like a mac address or something.

Also, I took it apart. It contains what seems to be an industry standard red-led bar code scanner module. It connects to a pcboard with lots of little surface mount stuff thats over my head.

Anyhow, lets crack this thing!!

:~(

On: DeForest Kelley's dead, Jim.

I have to say this is the worst news I've heard in a long time...

I remeber watching ST since I was 6 or 7! I feel like I've lost a friend.


:(

Secure FTP

On: Ask Slashdot: Secure FTP?

You could stick SSH in front of it. Then you could have an encrypted channel, and no clear-text passwords etc. SSH has clients for just about every platform.