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Google's camera distorts links in QR codes

• croes 5y ago
  https://www-heise-de.translate.goog/hintergrund/Googles-Kamera-verfaelscht-Links-in-QR-Codes-6332669.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=de&_x_tr_pto=wapp https://www-heise-de.translate.goog/hintergrund/Googles-Kame...
  • nacs 5y ago
    Thanks. The original site has an obnoxious cookie popup that covers the whole screen and more to the point here you have to scroll to click the buttons on mobile.
    • maupin 5y ago
      And it prompts for a login.
• egberts1 5y ago
  Couple that with numerous random stickers found on mailboxes, sign and traffic poles, and near alleyways, QR code is getting trusted less and less by the day.
  • T3OU-736 5y ago
    But why would it be more trusted to begin with?
    • egberts1 5y ago
      Trusted by the virtue of curiosity seekers.
• egberts1 5y ago
  Deployers of QR code MUST now embed some form of a checksum value of undisclosed algorithm to protect the original URL. Hence another frontier of cat-and-mouse game of security theater has emerged.