https://www.europesays.com/uk/81570/ Cashless Wave Sweeps Latin America Amid Mobile, FinTech Boom #DigitalPayments #ecommerce #EmbeddedFinance #FeaturedNews #FinTechs #LatinAmerica #MercadoPago #Mobile #MobilePayments #MobileWallets #News #PIX #PYMNTSIntelligence #PYMNTSNews #QRCodes #RealTimePayments #Technology #UK #UnitedKingdom
Boing Boing: Doom in a QR code. “Backdooms is a Doom-like game that fits inside a QR code. That’s to say, the code of the game is so concise that it can be represented by a legit QR code, which offers a maximum of 3 kilobytes of data.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/20/boing-boing-doom-in-a-qr-code/
#DOOM #VideoGames #QRCodes #stunting #lmao
'Backdooms is a Doom-like game that fits inside a QR code. That's to say, the code of the game is so concise that it can be represented by a legit QR code, which offers a maximum of 3 kilobytes of data.'
#QRCodes
Comme l'outils "Camera" de Windows 10 est tout pourri et qu'il met 3 plombes à décoder un QR-Code, est-ce que vous auriez une page qui permette de faire ça avec la webcam ?
J'ai trouvé ça : https://scanapp.org/
mais c'est pas encore super-réactif.
EDIT: Ah j'avais oublié LHV:
https://lehollandaisvolant.net/tout/tools/rqrcode/ (https://github.com/mebjas/html5-qrcode)
Simple, efficace, rapide.
@glynmoody Like so many things it's not really the technology that's at fault. QR codes are a convenient way of encoding & transmitting information.
The problems are that (a) most phones are configured to automatically load the webpage pointed at by a QR Code (assuming it encodes a URL) and (b) the persistent problem behind almost all online scams -- users are not given the tools or knowledge to help them detect a fraud.
I use the SECUSO QR Scanner app on my phone which not only displays the URL before launching it, but requires the user to check a confirmation box forcing you to think a bit more about what's about to happen.
Of course that only solves problem (a) above.
QR code '#quishing' scams up 14-fold in five years - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq6yznmv3gzo this is why I hate #QRcodes, and avoid using them...
#Fraud #QRCodes #Parking #Scam #Fraudulent #Scams #ScamsAndFraud #Technology #SmartPhones #quishing #quishingScam #QRCodeFraud #Cyber #CyberSecurity #cybersecuritynews
Always worth a post when so many scams are out there. Beware QR codes!!!
Organised gangs behind rise in QR 'quishing' scams https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq6yznmv3gzo
Today's pleasant discovery: If you search DuckDuckGo for
qr code the text you want in a QR code
then it generates the QR code for you. This is going to make things much easier with the ebooks I'm including in my book display in the library.
QR codes? QR codes! #qrcode #qrcodes #kewahrcodes #kubecon #qrcon
Apparently someone is sticking fake "Parking Payment" QR codes on parking meters in Manhattan Beach (California).
2025-04-01 13:26:52 PDT
The City warns residents and visitors about a scam involving unauthorized QR codes for parking payments. Currently, there are no QR codes for online payments at parking meters or pay stations.
Please avoid using any QR codes you come across, as they may lead to fraudulent sites. Only use official payment methods.
Report any suspicious activity to our Police Department. Stay safe and vigilant!
If you see a QR Code on a parking meter, do not scan it. Contact Manhattan Beach Police at (310) 545-4566.
https://member.everbridge.net/311578402488335/notif/YuHHaxdfx
@rooskatoen : not intended to offend, but to teach:
Type:
https:⧸⧸wikipedia.org
in the address bar of your browser, or make sure that something like "warn for http" or "always use https" is enabled in the browser settings (on iOS/iPadOS Safari and Chrome support it, AFAIK Edge on no platform at all).
Doing that prevents (albeit not very common) attacks like described in https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/australian-charged-for-evil-twin-wifi-attack-on-plane/.
If tooting, type what I wrote, or
https:⧸⧸www.wikipedia.org (or perhaps
https:⧸⧸en.wikipedia.org if you prefer English).
Note: I typed
https:⧸⧸ instead of
https:// because if I'd used the latter, Mastodon would have shortened the link and hidden the protocol, like in
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-visited_websites.
Enjoy learning ICT, and don't use third party (privacy invasive D-tour) URL shortening services, and neither third party QR-code generators!
@andrethemac : dank voor de tip! Ga ik naar kijken.
Uit https://secuso.aifb.kit.edu/english/105.php gebruik ik zelf https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.secuso.privacyFriendlyCodeScanner.
blog! “A Recursive QR Code”
I've been thinking about fun little artistic things to do with QR codes. What if each individual pixel were a QR code?
There's two fundamental problems with that idea. Firstly, a QR code needs whitespace around it in order to be scanned properly.
So I focussed on the top left positional marker. There's plenty of whitespace there.
Secondly, because QR codes…
Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/03/a-recursive-qr-code/
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#art #qr #QRCodes
SF Gate: QR-code stickers mysteriously appear on 1,000 Munich graves. Police are now investigating. “Police in Munich are investigating a mystery: More than 1,000 stickers were put on gravestones and wooden crosses at three cemeteries in the German city, without any indication of where they came from or why. The 5×3.5-centimeter (1.95×1.2-inch) stickers are printed with a QR code, that, when […]
I have seen article claiming that #Google is going to switch to requiring use of #QRcodes (which I loathe) in order to use #gmail, sometime in the not too distant future. The other email that I have used in the past gradually became useless in recent years (I suspect Gmail of blocking smaller mail servers) so I have just finished migrating everything to my gmail address, but it looks like I now need to migrate elsewhere.
Can people recommend a reliable email service?
(this is bad)
Engadget: #Gmail will stop using SMS for two-factor authentication and will use #qrcodes
https://www.engadget.com/cybersecurity/gmail-will-stop-using-sms-for-two-factor-authentication-185615193.html
Mashable: Gmail is dropping SMS authentication in favor of QR codes. “In an exchange with Forbes, a Google spokesperson confirmed that the company is working on ditching SMS text messages as a form of account authentication in Gmail. For years, this has been one of the main ways to gain access to a Gmail account; you just enter your phone number, and then enter the six-digit code Google sends […]
blog! “Why are QR Codes with capital letters smaller than QR codes with lower-case letters?”
Take a look at these two QR codes. Scan them if you like, I promise there's nothing dodgy in them.
Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/02/why-are-qr-codes-with-capital-letters-smaller-than-qr-codes-with-lower-case-letters/
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#qr #QRCodes
