As a sort of side question, does anyone know of a halfway-decent Android
app for scanning UPC-style barcodes?  QR scanners are pretty widespread,
but worthless for my purposes, and I haven't found a decent 2D barcode
scanner yet.

- Dave Mayo

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Michael B. Klein <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> This: http://www.keelog.com/hardware_keylogger.html
> plus any USB power adapter wall plug would do the trick.
>
> There's an 8MB "flash drive" version, and also a version with a WiFi
> interface so you can pull the log directly over the network instead of
> having to do any hardware download.
>
> Michael
>
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Adam Wead <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > huh.  neat idea.  certainly beats paying hundreds of dollars for some
> > other scanner.
> >
> > On Jan 30, 2012, at 2:15 PM, Michael B. Klein wrote:
> >
> > > I think Kyle's point was that you could use a hardware keylogger
> > *without*
> > > the computer behind it. Just have it "snoop" on your barcode scanner
> and
> > > then download the data from it daily. You'd still need to feed it USB
> > > power, but that's not hard.
> > >
> > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Nate Vack <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > >
> > >> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Kyle Banerjee <[log in to unmask]>
> > >> wrote:
> > >>> Since a barcode scanner is just a keyboard wedge, a hardware
> keylogger
> > >>> would work well for this purpose. It'll cost you less than $50
> > >>
> > >> It'll only work well if you don't mind your scanner spamming
> > >> keypresses to the rest of your apps all day.
> > >>
> > >> -n
> > >>
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