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Comment by teeray

Really surprised there hasn’t yet been a reckoning with QR code substitution attacks. Duplicate the menu, put up a “type your credit card details” form, and you could probably automate the actual order with the real menu site in the background. Boom—-skimmed.

There’s just no way for laypeople to evaluate the provenance of random QR codes. The restaurant industry often uses random third party sites for their menus, so even that is a poor signal.

EDIT: Adding second paragraph that was accidentally deleted before submission

parent teeray 4 years ago

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