USSD code to factory data reset a Galaxy S3 can be trigged from a HTML page

Re:USSD code to factory data reset a Galaxy S3 can be trigge... by superuser2 on Tuesday September 25, 2012 @11:21AM (#4570802)

It's a QR code of the tarball's hash, so you can do an easy (albeit less secure) visual verification instead of comparing two text strings.

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Re:USSD code to factory data reset a Galaxy S3 can be trigge... by tedunangst on Tuesday September 25, 2012 @01:39PM (#4571576)

uh what? So I download the file, hash it, then pipe that into some program that's going to show me another QR code? And then eyeball that for differences? Who does that? I already have programs to compare two text strings, easily, accurately, remotely. Comparing two pngs is way more work. I was just assuming the QR code was the URL, but hash QRs make even less sense than my IDE on the phone scenario.

Actually, looking at the URL of the QR code image itself, it is for the download URL.

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