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Yes, let’s give all passwords for wifi networks to the company that notoriously maps all wifi networks they can find. What could possibly go wrong...?
This happens every time I use android to connect to a WiFi network. Google stores my info in clear text to them.
A secure random WiFi password in a QR code is great for Android and iOS, and the laptops/desktops that can sync their password database with them over Bluetooth. But what about all those other random WiFi devices? I don’t relish the thought of entering 63 characters into my printer’s goofy interface, a games console, my car, etc...
Your car connects to WiFi? Oh boy, the security implications...
You know nothing john snow.
I do this in our house and it works great. I discovered one flaw though. When I say scan the QRCode I am immediately told “i don’t knows how” Or asked “the what?” Or disapproved of with “I hate those things.” Fun fact no one has ever actually scanned the code... ever! Maybe if I was a cafe but not for house guests.
And maybe somehow a script that rotates the password updating the Kindle.
You can immediately generate QR codes from it using this link: http://bwip-js.metafloor.com/demo/demo.html
I use BWIP-JS in my electron app. Love it. Super easy and reliable way to print barcodes on a label printer using nice UI: https://label.live
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I think it is a joke-attempt at getting him to reveal his wifi password :)
I have hereby been whooshed, though in my defense I have a guest-only, throttled and isolated wifi network so the potential for misuse didn't occur to me.
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They can’t be used to encode very much data though. They wouldn’t be suitable for storing documents, but could be used to store the location of a document. I was trying to be clever once and thought I could encode X.509 certificates in QR codes. Even that much data was pushing the hard limits of what they can store, and became very hard to scan (I quickly realised this wasn’t actually very clever).
i think datamatrix is more suitable for x509
Most ISP put this kind of QR code on the provided "modem" in France with the default Wifi password of the device. I love QR code. I think it should be everywhere. All legal documents and forms should have one. All supermarket bills should have one. It's a fantastic way to transition from paper to bits. Unfortunately most users have no idea what it is. They don't know what a URL is, so a QR code is out of the question…
This is interesting, however my main problem with really long Wi-Fi password are devices that have bad ways to input text. Things like media box using a remote controller or a video game console using it's controller. WPS was born to fix this, however the specification is so broken that it is literally useless from a secure standpoint.
I do this in our house and it works great. I discovered one flaw though. When I say scan the QRCode I am immediately told “i don’t knows how” Or asked “the what?” Or disapproved of with “I hate those things.” Fun fact no one has ever actually scanned the code... ever! Maybe if I was a cafe but not for house guests.
If nobody will use it, does it really work great?