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[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 52 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I believe this should work. At least some German emergency vehicles now come with filming protection.

The linked web page reads, “Attention! Rubbernecking kills!”

[–] naeap@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not sure a pseudo QR code on the truck gives off the right message

I actually would really like to know, what it says and would make myself punishable by that
But I think, it looks so inviting to scan it...

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The way I see it there are two options:

  1. You’re in a car and driving past that vehicle. If you don’t have your phone ready already, you won’t get it out in time and won’t be able to scan the code. You didn’t read the code and didn’t need to (because you weren’t rubbernecking).

  2. You’re in a car with your phone already out (because you’re expecting a crash) or you’re a pedestrian who takes out their phone to film the crash site. You do read the code and you should see it, because you’re rubbernecking.

[–] naeap@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I was more thinking about not driving the car myself, but being driven as a passenger

Although it's obviously a safety issue, when people turn away their focus to checkout a crash - no discussion about that - I was more thinking about the ethical issue of gaffing at injured people

[–] Jolteon@lemmy.zip 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can't think of a single phone that automatically opens links that are in QR codes. The worst it would do is just show a link to malware, wish you would have to manually click in order to download the malware.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 8 points 1 year ago

AIs need to read it, so it could be a way to inject prompts on AI models.

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All fun and games until you open your camera app and it's in selfie mode, instantly catching the QR code and bricks your own phone.

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That makes no sense, cause why would you intentionally click on the link you inadvertently scanned to brick your own phone?

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because people are idiots and like to press buttons.

Source: me

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jobs @blackn1ght@feddit.uk got fired from:

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

ICBM launch control operator

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Professional Mornington Crescent player

Explanation for people not familiar with the Radio 4 game show:

The game consists of each panellist in turn announcing a landmark or street, most often a London tube station. The ostensible aim is to be the first to announce "Mornington Crescent". Interspersed with the turns is humorous discussion amongst the panellists and host regarding the rules and legality of each move, as well as the strategy the panellists are using. The actual aim of the game is to entertain the other participants and listeners with amusing discussion of the fictional rules and strategies.

Yes, you can play the obvious trump card on turn 1 and win but where's the fun in that?

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Finally, we can build memetic hazards in real life

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait until somebody actually makes brain implants!

But on the other hand, people have actively used memetic hazards for millennia. Want to star a nice, cozy witch hunt?

[–] Amputret@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ah, the Basilisk Hack.

(Nothing to do with Roko, btw.)

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Getting closer to Snow Crash all the time.

[–] craigers@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Modern Day Medusa sounds like a cool band name

[–] TommySoda@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

I want a shirt that has a QR code that Rick rolls people.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

Strongly reminds me of Old MacDonald Had a Barcode, E-I-E-I CAR. Basically put a standard anti-virus test string into various sorts of barcode and see what breaks.

[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is this theoretically possible?

[–] BugKilla@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, yes. You could bury code or malicious data in an image, QR or otherwise, and leverage an exploit that during processing of the visual data within the camera subsystem or inter subsystem calls could hypothetically trigger an execution path that results in a different outcome than expected, all without user permission. There is a lot of sw and hw sec controls in play at internal system boundaries and it would be very very difficult to gain privilege enough to fist fuck a phone but not impossible.

With the outstanding level of FR, NFR and Sec testing that companies perform these days it is not likely to happen. It's not like they push out minimal viable products or something, right? /S

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago

Well that's one layer, but when you decode a url, you're probably going to get a url, and then it's going to go to that url

So now you just made them to to a website. What's there? Whatever you want. Maybe you ask them for Facebook/Google/GitHub or whatever authorization to see their name and email, which a lot of people would do. Then redirect them to a page saying "now I know who you are, delete the photo, "

Or you could send them a payload based on fingerprinting their request, you could give them a fake page to steal their password, etc

[–] perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So what? That only prevents people from editing the photo in certain programs like Adobe Photoshop.

[–] MIXEDUNIVERS@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Not all Phones habe qr code detection in the camera mode

[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Every smartphone I’ve had does but every one of them has also asked if I want to follow the link rather than just doing it.

[–] littlewonder@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Most do. It's the only reason they finally somewhat caught on after a rough start when users had to download an app in order to read the code.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 1 points 1 year ago

And those that do don't download and run code willy-nilly.

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Wasn’t this almost the plot line of Snowcrash?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'd be flattered if someone actually wanted to film me with their phone. :(

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

So... Everything is a meme now? Screenshots of random text posts are memes?