UGN Security Forums UGN Security: Underground Off Topic Burn your labels DIRECTLY to CD!

Ok, I was bored and browsing through a Tiger Direct Catalog today...

I stumble upon an ad for the Yamaha DiskT@2 (Disk Tatoo).

It turns out that theive designed a way to actually tatoo your disks (a label, serial, even a picture)...

Now, I'm curious how easy or difficult it'd be to actually copy a CD burned through this process since the labels themselves are broken sectors of data (non existant of corse, it should just be random).

Since the data is broken up, theoretically the burner will read it as being currupted data when you're attempting to make a copy...

I just found it and figured it looked quite sweet and promising, anyone have any experiance with it yet?

I read an article about this a while back. I think it was PCWorld. It basically said that it was a cool idea, but the burner actually only worked about 70% of the time. Took a long time for the tatoo to actually happen, and then it would often screw up the CD. I guess 70% is over half the time, but who wants to throw away 3 CDs out of 10?

I just checked out the PCWorld site, couldn't find anything, so it must not have been that mag. But that's what I read a while ago.

More than likely they were using cheap CD's :x... I'm actually curious about the burner (see, i've had that same issue with other burners, it just turned out it was my cd's)...

Dude, a respectable PC magazine. You think they don't try different CDs?

I've read reviews in 30 differant magazines and none had encountered errors like that. It can be everything from a fluke to a bad part...

If they tested say 30 cd's of 9 differant brands I'd go with it, but when most places do reviews they test 10 of one type since individuals test out the hardware.

Becides, as listed it sais that it writes to the non written sectors so in theory if you told it to write an image thats larger than the area you have to play with you could [censored] up your burn by attempting to re-write in an already written area.

There are tons of things that *could* go wrong, I just tend to like to look at more than one review...