Google's camera distorts links in QR codes(heise.de)

24 pointsby ThomasMidgley5 lat temu7 comments

Google's camera distorts links in QR codes

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

7 comments

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-7365 lat temu

But why would it be more trusted to begin with?

egberts15 lat temu

Trusted by the virtue of curiosity seekers.

croes5 lat temu

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

nacs5 lat temu

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.

maupin5 lat temu

And it prompts for a login.

egberts15 lat temu

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.