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Dumb glasses (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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[–] 110 points 7 months ago (22 children)

My biggest pet peeve in life is this meme bc THIS IS NOT HOW QR CODES WORK THEY DO NOT SCAN AUTOMATICALLY YOU HAVE TO CLICK ON THE WEBSITE

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  • [–] 83 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    My biggest pet peeve is the continual slide of society towards a growing surveillance state as capitalism pursues infinite profits through the sale of every facet of your life.

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  • [–] 25 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I’ll also take that on a shirt

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    It's the old story of boiling a frog alive!

    You increase the temp too fast or throw him into boiling water hell get out. If you slowly increase the temp from cool to boil, it'll get cooked alive.

    Society incrementally gets worse so it's hardly noticeable. Inflation made the news a few years back but now it's all hush hush. Everything can go unnoticed until it doesn't, and most things are so subtle, most people don't give it a second thought.

    Or like buying a new car and then you see that same model everywhere. Now that you're familiar, is easier to see. Same with security and privacy!!

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    maybe a combo with social engineering would work here, like the t-shirt has a QR code plus a caption like "click this link for boobs" 🤣

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    I’ve definitely seen that if it’s a url, my preview will tell me the title of the webpage on the other end. That might only scan the basics, but I don’t think it’s implausible that preview code could have vulnerabilities.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    If it’s showing you the title, then it visited the page already.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    No, if they’re security conscious, then it may mean they only did a request that scanned the HTML for a tag. That means one WGET call, but a far cry from a standard definition of “visiting” in which your device’s JS parser starts running their unknown code and page instructions.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Sure, we can split hairs about the definition of “visiting” a site. But like your wget example, at the very least the server gets your ip address. Then possibly a user agent string. Maybe follows a redirect. Maybe cookies. A lot of that depends on how secure and privacy oriented the http client is. And all that can happen without rendering a full html DOM, or executing js code.

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