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4586 - Concerns about its data-collection practices threaten Digital:Convergence's plans to roll out 50 million of the bar-code scanners by 2002. [ZDNet]

5859 - People engaged in reverse engineering are a check on the ability of companies to invade our privacy without our knowledge. [ZDNet]

:CluelessCat? - Thanks to a (previously) little-known company called "Digital Convergence

A scanner darkly - Can Wired's CueCat giveaway turn us into a nation of bar-code-reading clerks? [Salon.com]

Barcode Maker Responds After Forcing Drivers Offline - Digital Convergence responds to the flak that they've taken after demanding that several developers take drivers offline that work with their "CueCat" barcode reader. [Slashdot]

Cat and Mouse Games - A little of this convergence stuff goes a long way. Face it

CueCat At It Again - . Michael Rothwell (the author of Foocat) wrote in to tell us that our friends at Digital Convergence are not giving up on their quest to defend their 3rd grader calibre "encryption" of their "intellectual property". [Slashdot]

CueCat Goes After Online Barcode Database - Just noted that CueCat is going for this year's Useless Legal Action Beanie by going after www.upcdatabase.com

CueCat PAM Module for Linux - The pam_cuecat module reads decoded bar codes from /dev/scanners/cuecat

CueCat Rollout Proceeds Amid Debate - Bar codes for Internet scanners called CueCats made their latest debut in print Sunday in The Dallas Morning News

Digital Convergence Changes EULA - Apparently Digital Convergence has changed their EULA. This EULA has been modified to include the CueCat reader in an attempt to shutdown those tinkering with their cats. [Slashdot]

Here's a Digit for You - [Dallas Observer]

Killing your CueCat - A humorous protest of Digital Convergence's CueCat product featuring satirical parodies of ads and their license agreement plus alternate uses/gratuitous destruction of the controversial barcode scanner.

More on the :CueCat - The :CueCat is a classic example of a broken business model. One can no longer (if

Perl and :CueCat Help You Roll Your Own Data Capture - By Brent Michalski.

Privacy Concerns and The CueCat - About the serial number and how to remove it. [Slashdot]

RelQ Software - Independent software testing services for functionality

Surfing Off the Page - Forbes magazine last week shipped its 810

The Cat Is Out Of The Bag - Finally

The Clause of the CueCat/Legal Language Could Shut Down Hardware Tinkerers - This unimpressive little gadget has recently become the heart of a controversy involving independent software developers. The outcome could potentially set a new precedent in how consumers control and use the products they bring home. [SF Gate]