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Re:QR code images in macOS are silently executed in the back... by Spivak on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @11:27AM (#33096803)
How are you going to send it to them in such a way that it wouldn’t be glaringly obvious to a court that they were sent it unsolicited?

If your threat model is the government fabricating evidence then why even bother, just arrest them, “collect” a USB drive at their house with CP and lie.

I mean hell why even bother with the song and dance, just send them the link and iMessage preview will do it too.

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Re:QR code images in macOS are silently executed in the back... by jcynix on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @12:28PM (#33097595)
If it's sitting in your browser's cache, how do you determine wether it's there unsolicited or not? That's the problem already with real-time ad brokering. And it's easy to set any images to "display: none" with CSS, but they would still be loaded in the background. Now explain that to a court.
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