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Re:macOS scanning and following downloaded QR codes has been... by lapcat on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @06:10PM (#33101848)
In a now deleted tweet, the person was also ridiculing security researchers who were DMing him for more information, painting them as lazy, as if they hadn't tried to reproduce themselves. But nobody could reproduce the issue.
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Re:macOS scanning and following downloaded QR codes has been... by merely-unlikely on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @07:02PM (#33102307)
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lololol @ the "security researchers" sliding into my DMs asking me to run shell commands and send them the output

Go run your Little Snitch and WireShark and tcpdump and mdimport and mitmproxy and system_profiler on yourself; I'm not your SOC.

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https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:e2HBeu...

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Re:macOS scanning and following downloaded QR codes has been... by eek2121 on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @08:46PM (#33103030)
uh wow. It goes without saying that you should know what the commands do before you run them and should not ask for help and then be hostile when people offer to help.
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