[WEB4LIB] Re: CueCat -- Any Progress?

[Thomas Dowling]

> Please see Wired, December 2000, page 102 for information about some
hacks
> for the Cue Cat, including a java-based program that looks up ISBN
numbers
> at libraries worldwide. The article also includes a way to "declaw" it
by
> disabling the component that transmits a unique serial number with each
> scan.
>

Then see articles on slashdot, cnet, and elsewhere about Digital
Convergence's strongarm tactics and threats to sue anyone who hooks the
CueCat up to software they didn't authorize, from hacking out the serial
number (which they hoped no one would find out about) to writing a Linux
driver for it.  Every hacker Digital Convergence knows about got a cease
and desist order in the mail.


Thomas Dowling
OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu