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Re:The GNU Name System by latchkey on Monday July 25, 2022 @09:55AM (#32224333)
I stopped using qr codes when I realized how easy it is for someone to put a sticker over an existing code and send me to a phishing site. Certainly, I can do it super cautiously, but it definitely seems like an easy attack vector.
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Re:The GNU Name System by ryukafalz on Monday July 25, 2022 @10:28AM (#32224778)
They can also put a sticker over the domain name, and it’s not necessarily going to be clear in the moment if mylocalrestaurant.co is invalid and it should be mylocalrestaurant.com instead.
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Re:The GNU Name System by kevincox on Monday July 25, 2022 @01:07PM (#32227453)
Nearly all of my QR usage is untrusted links anyways so it doesn't make any difference to me.
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