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Re:Show HN: Scan QR codes to check-in guests registered via ... by EduardoBautista on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @04:42PM (#38787108)
I've never heard of this domain before, so I shouldn't click on it because vulnerabilities in the browser are still routinely discovered.

Sorry for the sarcasm, but if you trust clicking on links in a browser, QR codes should be fine as well.

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Re:Show HN: Scan QR codes to check-in guests registered via ... by fiddlerwoaroof on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @05:27PM (#38787586)
Yeah, if your threat model involves not trusting links, you should be disabling JavaScript and CSS by default and probably not browsing the web in the first place. Libpng and other libraries frequently have fairly critical bugs that are a bigger concern than MitM attacks.
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