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don't like the price? change the barcode!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Fri Apr 11 13:18:33 2003
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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: 11 Apr 2003 12:57:11 -0400
A trivial way to attack automated bar code scanners: change the
barcodes on products you are buying. I think actually doing it is
reprehensible, but on the other hand it does show what happens when
people start applying lessons from computer security to the real world:
http://www.re-code.com/
A Salon article on the same topic:
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/04/10/barcode/index.html
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Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com
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