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A comment on The Curious Comeback of the Dreaded QR Code.

Re:The Curious Comeback of the Dreaded QR Code by pishpash on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @11:41AM (#14805073)
Phone OS's not having built-in QR code readers suppressed the usefulness of QR codes. It was maybe for security reasons, if so that also points to a problem with the protocol.
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Re:The Curious Comeback of the Dreaded QR Code by digi_owl on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @12:12PM (#14805369)
The only way it would be a security risk would be if it tossed the content right into a browser or similar.

It it was presented in plain text for the user to see before taking any action, there would be no more risk than any other printed URL (unless the very scanning app has issues, but then that is a very different rabbit hole).

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Re:The Curious Comeback of the Dreaded QR Code by rmwaite on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @09:27PM (#14809401)
iOS 11 will include QR code support in the native camera app.
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