Journal morcheeba's Journal: Disposable Digital Camera now connects to home computers 2
The protocol for the $11 disposable digital camera previously mentioned on Slashdot has been reverse engineered. You can build a $7 USB cable and add Mac, Linux, or Windows software, and you'll have a 1.2 megapixel camera you don't have to worry about. Picture quality isn't that great, but it's cheap enough to experiment with. It turns out that the camera's interface is similar to others supported by gphoto2, except that a simple hash function enables data transfers. No encryption was used.
Compare with the "accepted" article... (Score:2)
Round 1
M: Disposable Digital Camera now connects to home computers
vs.
MA: Ritz Disposable Digital Camera Hacked
Morcheeba comes out swinging with a detailed, informative headline. But Morgue-Ann wades right in with a short zinger. The word "Hacked" turns the judges heads, looks like M-Ann is going to take Round 1.
Round 2
M: The protocol for the $11 disposable digital camera previously mentioned on Slashdot
Re:Compare with the "accepted" article... (Score:2)
Oh, what have the judges done? Morgue-ann's careless linking to a wiki twice leaves innocent stander-byer revjim knocked flat out by the traffic. [slashdot.org] Then, a slashdot troll lurking in the shadows takes advantage of the situation and replaces the wiki with "i'm an idiot". Ka-blam!
But, still, morgue-ann is standing. Unknown to her, morcheeba's web server begins its bandwidth-saturating weekly backup a mere four hours later - she slashdotted the site just in time to avoid even more major damage. Morcheeba