Is it wrong to scan random QR-codes?

3 points by zulln 4 years ago · 6 comments

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gpvos 4 years ago

No idea, any idea why that would be wrong?

zullnOP 4 years ago

Coinbase had an ad during superbowl (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zLsUhOCqyU) which was just a QR-code moving around on the screen.
Afterwards Twitter was full of security people complaining this teaches people to scan random QR-codes, and that this apparently moved security awareness back several years.
I thought that by now "everyone" had seen this part of the discussion, but it seems like I was wrong and it was just my little Twitter bubble.
- gpvos 4 years ago
  
  Thanks, that is a bit of context that non-USians (or in this case those that are not in a security-related echo chamber) are unlikely to know.
hobomatic 4 years ago

Nope. Was hoping this article enumerated a few, and made some sort of compelling argument to the contrary, but it didn't.
- _zzaw 4 years ago
  
  Yeah, I thought this post was going to cover potential security risks specific to QR codes. I’m not sure why there would be any ethical issues surrounding this question.