don't like the price? change the barcode!

[Perry E. Metzger]

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 at piermont.com

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