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@cstross I feel sorry for the photographer covering the protest for the school newspaper over at the community college
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@neurovagrant @cstross @unknownbinaries
There's an older discussion on the topic here in my and @catsalad's timeline, not only with the EICAR, but also with a nice SQL bomb (remember Bobby Tables?
). Please feel free to make a shirt out of it.On German ambulances are QR codes leading to pages informing about why it's bad to film victims and rescuers. A good idea. Makes filming impossible if your camera app opens QR codes right away without user consent...
@Datterich @neurovagrant @cstross @unknownbinaries @catsalad Which camera opens QR codes right away?! Well, to be fair I have to use a FOSS QR scanner because the camera app from my phone doesn't scan those at all, but I never saw any phone that opens QR codes right away ever.
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@cstross damn, it's even more creative than my fantasies about brain implant generating white noise to interrupt others' phones cloud connectivity
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@cstross It's already happened to me several times! Need one of these!
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@cstross It's ironic that an idea from an earlier, more innocent era has caught on now that no sane person would blindly go to an obscured URL.
@werebooks @cstross And current dominant business model in web is to successfully manipulate people to click things they normally wouldn't want to... I hate this cursed timeline so much...
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@neurovagrant @cstross @unknownbinaries
There's an older discussion on the topic here in my and @catsalad's timeline, not only with the EICAR, but also with a nice SQL bomb (remember Bobby Tables?). Please feel free to make a shirt out of it.On German ambulances are QR codes leading to pages informing about why it's bad to film victims and rescuers. A good idea. Makes filming impossible if your camera app opens QR codes right away without user consent...
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@neurovagrant @cstross @unknownbinaries what happens, when scanned?
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@neurovagrant @cstross @unknownbinaries
We need stickers!What do I say - posters, billboard-sized!
Imagine one of the G00gle cars drive by, scanning for Street View, wifis, and... Gemini?
PS: Thanks, @catsalad, for looking up the old thread. I'm not good at that... How are you so organized?
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@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.
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@neurovagrant @cstross @unknownbinaries
We need stickers!What do I say - posters, billboard-sized!
Imagine one of the G00gle cars drive by, scanning for Street View, wifis, and... Gemini?
PS: Thanks, @catsalad, for looking up the old thread. I'm not good at that... How are you so organized?
@Datterich @neurovagrant @cstross @unknownbinaries Everything I favorite becomes searchable in my fulltext search, so I use search quite often.
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@rk See also comp.basilisk.faq: https://ansible.uk/writing/c-b-faq.html
@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).
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@cstross Totally GENIUS!
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@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?)
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@peachfront @cstross make a collection out of it.
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@cstross the EICAR code as barcode or qrcode used to break a lot of automatized systems.
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@missbullitt @cstross what does it do?
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@neurovagrant @trainguyrom @anotherdaniel @cstross @unknownbinaries I am not saying that a huge grocery store chain in norway is vulnerable to this "attack" in their self service tills, I would not know anything about that, no need to ask any further questions
@agathos @neurovagrant @trainguyrom @anotherdaniel @cstross @unknownbinaries
Facial recognition -> goatse.cx/hello.jpg
(Actually, I must try that QR code on Morrisons self-service till....)
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@cstross
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@cstross Or sunglasses with the QR code.
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@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!
