Google's camera distorts links in QR codes

https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Googles-Kamera-verfaelscht-Links-in-QR-Codes-6332669.html

by ThomasMidgley • 5 years ago

24 7 5 years ago

heise.de

croes• 5 years ago

https://www-heise-de.translate.goog/hintergrund/Googles-Kame...

nacs• 5 years ago

Thanks.

The original site has an obnoxious cookie popup that covers the whole screen and more to the point here you have to scroll to click the buttons on mobile.

maupin• 5 years ago

And it prompts for a login.

egberts13• 5 years ago

Couple that with numerous random stickers found on mailboxes, sign and traffic poles, and near alleyways, QR code is getting trusted less and less by the day.

T3OU-736• 5 years ago

But why would it be more trusted to begin with?

egberts13• 5 years ago

Trusted by the virtue of curiosity seekers.

egberts13• 5 years ago

Deployers of QR code MUST now embed some form of a checksum value of undisclosed algorithm to protect the original URL.

Hence another frontier of cat-and-mouse game of security theater has emerged.

Google's camera distorts links in QR codes

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