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Do you think the emergence of infected QR codes will hinder QR code adoption?
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No more so than infected emails hinder email usage. Don't open dodgy emails, don't click on random QR codes. It's still about trust. I think the bigger hindrance to adoption is poor implementation by marketers who are adding them to anything with no clear goal or reasonable purpose.
Agreed, I think it will change the way in which we handle QR Codes, but not the adoption rate. We should never implicitly trust anything as it relates to technology, there need to be checks and validation prior to use.
It would be useful to know HOW it is a threat. Seems to me the usual problem of rushed software has led to serious yet fundamental design/coding mistakes, leading to e.g. buffer overflow exploits.
Time companies stopped rushing out software solutions. The army don't give rifles to new recruits on day 1 then send them into battle on day 2 - they spend months getting it right, and constantly train to keep it right. Software is like a loaded gun - dangerous in the wrong hands (and those wrong hands are increasingly large corporations who care little for code quality and rush projects out the door in the name of profit). Half the security threats we see could be eliminated through proper software design, development and testing.
I long for a return to proper software design and analysis. Maybe we won't need supercomputers to write a letter then.
It used to be we increased the power of computers to do more. Now we increase the power of computers just to do the same but less efficiently.
There have been a few instances of QR codes linked to android virus deploying web sites. Similar to spam links that are sent out. Because QR codes are so new, many people scan them regardless of where they are found.
In the future, there will be security packages for smartphones as well and this won't be so much of an issue, but for now, who has virus protection for their phone?
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