Digital Convergence — the company that created a controversy with its CueCat scanner — fired most of its employees recently, and is doing the dot.com restructure dance. For more information see the Dallas Morning News story about the change in DC’s fortunes, CueCat firm fires most workers, restructures. Of course Slashdot noted the upside in that, “But it looks like those CueCats out there are now definitely freely hackable without threat of a cease and desist.”
DC had sent out cease and desist letters to people who posted instructions on the Internet describing how to hack the DC scanner.