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Comment by devy

I can't believe promoting the QR code-based challenge as the agentic way of fraud defense. Having non-human readable data input is dangerous if somehow the QR code is comprised with a zero-day URL, it's game-over.

Note: I know QR code is ubiquitous these days, but still blinding scanning a QR code to go to accessing an URL is like running a binary downloaded from the internet.

Note2: yes, the `curl $URL | bash` installation approach is essentially just that, yet somehow became popular.

parent devy 6 months ago

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