Lol. This is the User-Agent of Apple's crawler:
"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_1) AppleWebKit/601.2.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.0.1 Safari/601.2.4 facebookexternalhit/1.1 Facebot Twitterbot/1.0"
QR code images in macOS are silently executed in the background hours/days later
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I am more worried about browsing Reddit, and steganography has put that horrible things into it, so I am looking at a picture of a tree and something horrible is in it. Seriously, imagine a tree being 'bound' to evil. A high school friend Bruce told me about that and I flipped the fuck out. That guy told me that and I went what the fuck is wrong with people. I want to browse a decent godddamn internet. It should have…
> The US government isn't that fucked up.
1. See MK Ultra
2. There are other governments then the US
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How are you going to send it to them in such a way that it wouldn’t be glaringly obvious to a court that they were sent it unsolicited?
If your threat model is the government fabricating evidence then why even bother, just arrest them, “collect” a USB drive at their house with CP and lie.
I mean hell why even bother with the song and dance, just send them the link and iMessage preview will do it too.
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I am more worried about browsing Reddit, and steganography has put that horrible things into it, so I am looking at a picture of a tree and something horrible is in it. Seriously, imagine a tree being 'bound' to evil. A high school friend Bruce told me about that and I flipped the fuck out. That guy told me that and I went what the fuck is wrong with people. I want to browse a decent godddamn internet. It should have…
>The US government isn't that fucked up.
hahaha
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Or an "influencer" with many followers could post the barcode and create a DDoS attack.
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#18It could be an AV engine doing it. Some phishing attacks have switched to using QR codes instead of links as an evasion technique in the last couple of years, so the anti-evasion to that is decode it and browse the link to see if it's malicious.
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I am more worried about browsing Reddit, and steganography has put that horrible things into it, so I am looking at a picture of a tree and something horrible is in it. Seriously, imagine a tree being 'bound' to evil. A high school friend Bruce told me about that and I flipped the fuck out. That guy told me that and I went what the fuck is wrong with people. I want to browse a decent godddamn internet. It should have…
> The US government isn't that fucked up
Well, as it is worth remembering, we killed 286,000 (mostly innocent) people in 3 days to win a war...
> Cops just sprinkle crack on people.
I wouldn't blame cops - I'd blame the FBI. If they planted it, and said you had it because they investigate that kind of thing (and they have tons of examples for material), you're screwed. Very convenient way to silence a dissident and silence the supporters... (not saying they have but in the future...)
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Well the scanning is supposed to be local. It's not uploading your photos or anything. You can turn it off in System Preferences -> Spotlight -> Privacy. Or go further and remove Spotlight https://cleanmymac.com/faq/how-to-turn-off-spotlight-search-... Not positive this works on the latest hardware.