I think someone mentioned this earlier, but what about having the instructions encoded *in* the barcode, rather than having it encode a url? This seems like it would be simpler, and avoid the privacy issue altogether.
I vaguely remember some computer magazine a long time ago having programs that you could key into your computer, but also having the program encoded in a bar code, so you could just scan in the code. Where was that?
Also, is any of this research with the Media Lab's Counter Intelligence project?
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I think someone mentioned this earlier, but what about having the instructions encoded *in* the barcode, rather than having it encode a url? This seems like it would be simpler, and avoid the privacy issue altogether.
I vaguely remember some computer magazine a long time ago having programs that you could key into your computer, but also having the program encoded in a bar code, so you could just scan in the code. Where was that?
Also, is any of this research with the Media Lab's Counter Intelligence project?
In case anyone was interested, according to this (towards the bottom), the processor that the TiVo uses is an IBM 403GCX PowerPC. Cheers!