This. Just, this.

[duckyd@mast.bigduck.xyz]

@cstross people think I am paranoid for not wanting to scan a QR code out in public, ever. gas stations, restaurants, whatever. how easy it is for someone with bad intentions to just place a sticker over the good one. I'll pass.

[catsalad@infosec.exchange]

@Datterich @neurovagrant @cstross @unknownbinaries Everything I favorite becomes searchable in my fulltext search, so I use search quite often.

EICAR in:library has:media

[janeishly@beige.party]

@cstross "What Happened at Cambridge IV" by David Langford is one of my favourite short stories ever (and I've got it in an anthology with Terry Pratchett's "ifdefDEBUG + ‘world/enough’ + ‘time’", which is another absolute belter).

[carloshr@lile.cl]

@cstross Totally GENIUS!

[vic@toot.wales]

@cstross I had a whole-ass sci-fi novel idea sketched out around this concept once (but then I think I figured out somebody actually wrote it? Gibson?)

[sir_toootenstein@det.social]

@peachfront @cstross make a collection out of it.

[oook@im-in.space]

@cstross the EICAR code as barcode or qrcode used to break a lot of automatized systems.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EICAR_test_file

[sir_toootenstein@det.social]

@missbullitt @cstross what does it do?

[cadbury_moose@wandering.shop]

@agathos @neurovagrant @trainguyrom @anotherdaniel @cstross @unknownbinaries

Facial recognition -> goatse.cx/hello.jpg

(Actually, I must try that QR code on Morrisons self-service till....)

[enema_cowboy@dotnet.social]

@cstross
Or the Lemon Party URI.

[penpencilbrush@mstdn.social]

@cstross Or sunglasses with the QR code.

[dandylover1@someplace.social]

@cstross That's great. But with my luck, I will be using Seeing AI to read something printed near me or to describe the scenery and I'll accidentally scan such a shirt!

[howtophil@mastodon.social]

@cstross If this existed, it would be used by bastard cops

[kerravonsen@mastodon.au]

@duckyd @cstross Yes, exactly! Why would I want to take my browser to a URL which is not only unknown, but unknowable? I avoid URL shorteners likewise.
Not knowing where the URL goes is like taking a blind leap off a cliff.

[nerb@techhub.social]

@cstross

There used to be a guy that had a big sticker on the back of his Van .

Said something about tired of the same old sour politicians. Join the lemon party. With a QR code and underneath the url for the lemon party site. I hope he caught a few.

[ronniesaurushex@disabled.social]

@shift_reset

That was where my mind went

[dancingtreefrog@mastodon.social]

@kerravonsen @duckyd @cstross Especially what I call a "naked" link - just a link in a toot, no page title, nothing said about what it's about, or why I might want to visit it. That always makes a link sound like a phishing/malicious link!

[farbenstau@infosec.exchange]

@cstross I would pick anti-counterfeit markers like the EURion constellation (you'll need more than that, EURion alone doesn't trigger the alert) instead …

[farbenstau@infosec.exchange]

@nblr @mbirth @cstross As far as I know, a single anti-counterfeit pattern won't trigger the alert. Same goes for repetitions of said pattern. You need at least one *different* pattern in addition to the EURion(s) to trigger it.

[phwolfe@scicomm.xyz]

@cstross I would wear this