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Can you actually point your phone camera at a QR code and have it connect automatically, as the website says? I generally avoid QR codes as they obfuscate the target URL, but I thought you needed an app for reading them on Android and possibly also iOS.
Can you actually point your phone camera at a QR code and have it connect automatically, as the website says? I generally avoid QR codes as they obfuscate the target URL, but I thought you needed an app for reading them on Android and possibly also iOS.
Most phone cameras nowadays have a built in qr-code reader.
Can you actually point your phone camera at a QR code and have it connect automatically, as the website says? I generally avoid QR codes as they obfuscate the target URL, but I thought you needed an app for reading them on Android and possibly also iOS.
Something like wifi will have a custom prompt that says “Connect to WiFi network MyNetwork.”
I am sure that this is not what this site is for. But... For a moment I thought: What a great attack vector. Collect WiFi passwords from around the globe.
My first though was "Why would I ever enter my wifi credentials into a web form?", but perhaps there are people who would...
At first I was like "OMG, this is going to be awesome, this person has a QR generator which will magically connect me to the WiFi with my password embedded in the QR somehow. I am going to have to read the source... This is gonna be great... but then, disappointment. It is just a card with my password in plain text. Why the heck would I ever print this out?
If you’re wanting a _really_ secure network, WPA2 isn’t the way to go. You’d want to credential every user using 802.1X or WPA2 Enterprise.
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Most phone cameras nowadays have a built in qr-code reader.
But does it automatically recognise it as an SSID and password and connect as the website suggests?
This has been the case for quite some time. I assume Android can do it too (and if so, probably did it first).
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A lot of developers only know the new, needlessly complicated ways of doing things. I have met professional software engineers who have never heard of shared web hosting, for example. It's also surprisingly possible to learn enough about programming to get a job without understanding basic computing concepts. I've met professional software engineers, with multiple years of experience and promotions under their belt,…
No, how can you not know the difference between RAM and disk in a server context? What sort of programmers are these?
When you abstract "storage" into "my library/tools save state somewhere" (and god forbid you include localStorage into the mix!) and don't deal with the hardware itself, I could see how a lot of new-ish coders wouldn't be able to differentiate RAM and disk.
WIFI:S:;T:;P:;;
And can be generated with any qrencode program.
Why would you trust a random page on the internet and go paste your wifi password on it?
You could also inspect the source, it’s open source, or network requests.