On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:19:43PM +1000, Anthony Farr wrote: > 2009/7/28 P. J. Alling <webstertwenty...@gmail.com>:
> It reminds me of the brand (forgotten which one) which recently > declared that use of third party batteries would void a camera's > warranty. Do they have snoop-ware in the firmware that can sniff out > non-compliant attachments and create a hidden log-file? Actually, that's likely how they do it. They probably have a chip in the battery that will use a key to hash a random number that the camera sends it. I haven't read up on Alice, Bob et. al. in a while, but it's pretty straightforward crypto. -- The first step is learning to take great photos, the second step is learning to throw away ones that are merely good. Larry Colen l...@red4est.com http://www.red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
