QR codes are fine, even if you're not fine with them

When Spencer Buell of Boston Magazine came out earlier this month with a full-throated roar against the QR code, my knee-jerk reaction was to bang my head against the wall. I don't like hurting myself, though, so I stopped, read his piece in full, and began to feel out where he was coming from. After all, these weirdo pixels aren't really human-readable, require an expensive, sometimes unwieldy phone to be understood, can be exploited for deception or malware, and might not even make sense as a replacement for good ol' plaintext... at least at first blush.

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Jules Wang

When Spencer Buell of Boston Magazine came out earlier this month with a full-throated roar against the QR code, my knee-jerk reaction was to bang my head against the wall. I don't like hurting myself, though, so I stopped, read his piece in full, and began to feel out where he was coming from. After all, these weirdo pixels aren't really human-readable, require an expensive, sometimes unwieldy phone to be understood, can be exploited for deception or malware, and might not even make sense as a replacement for good ol' plaintext... at least at first blush.

https://ift.tt/eA8V8J January 06, 2022 at 04:00PM