https://e-sygoing.link Latest links in the CueCat category en-us Mon, 25 May 2026 19:29:47 -0400 https://e-sygoing.link/link/5698616-more-on-the-cuecat The :CueCat is a classic example of a broken business model. One can no longer (if, indeed, one ever could) put out a piece of hardware with the expectation that people will not seek to improve its operation with new software. [Linux Weekly News] Sat, 24 Jan 2026 03:40:53 -0500 https://e-sygoing.link/go/5698616 https://e-sygoing.link/link/5698618-privacy-concerns-and-the-cuecat About the serial number and how to remove it. [Slashdot] Thu, 22 Jan 2026 01:19:44 -0500 https://e-sygoing.link/go/5698618 https://e-sygoing.link/link/5698614-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] Sun, 11 Jan 2026 16:19:44 -0500 https://e-sygoing.link/go/5698614 https://e-sygoing.link/link/5698610-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] Mon, 27 Jan 2025 09:37:02 -0500 https://e-sygoing.link/go/5698610 https://e-sygoing.link/link/5698621-cluelesscat Thanks to a (previously) little-known company called "Digital Convergence," we now have our latest attack on the right to program. [Linux Weekly News] Thu, 03 Oct 2024 08:48:07 -0400 https://e-sygoing.link/go/5698621 https://e-sygoing.link/link/5698615-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, a site that is storing UPC codes and allows people to look them up. [Slashdot] Sun, 28 Apr 2024 05:27:16 -0400 https://e-sygoing.link/go/5698615 https://e-sygoing.link/link/5698624-cuecat-pam-module-for-linux The pam_cuecat module reads decoded bar codes from /dev/scanners/cuecat, looks up the username:barcode_type:barcode line in /etc/cuecatpasswd, and returns whether or not this user has been authenticated. Fri, 29 Mar 2024 23:41:51 -0400 https://e-sygoing.link/go/5698624 https://e-sygoing.link/link/5698620-digital-convergence-changes-eula-and-gets-cracked 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] Tue, 19 Dec 2023 08:54:50 -0500 https://e-sygoing.link/go/5698620