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It wouldn't affect anyone because no one has ever scanned a QR code in an ad
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Looks like this thread may have been a source for the code initially [1] [1] http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1687249
Looks like this thread may have been a source for the code initially [1] [1] http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1687249
Classic case of a developer putting a backdoor in (for testing) and forgetting to take it out. I'm curious as to how long it will take to patch it and if there will be any fallout over this (they are the number 1 phone producer in the world).
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I was in a British train station the other day and saw a poster containing 20 QR codes, one for each of a set a possible journeys from the station. Since I'm techy and had time to kill I scanned it, waiting to see the timetable information. Sadly the company who installed the posters was having some downtime, so it just errored. The annoying thing was that they were really just a URL shortening company, forwarding yo…
My local bus company has failed to grasp QR codes in a mind-bogglingly thorough way. Every stop has a poster with a QR code on it, advertising that you can now look up when the next bus will be here by scanning the QR code. The first thing you might notice is that the poster is actually a photo of a QR code on a poster, and is taken at an angle sufficient to render scanning the QR code impossible. The second thing yo…
Lothian Buses in Edinburgh has done the right thing: they've stuck QR codes to each of their information signs, which direct you to the correct page on their mobile site, and the official Android app is registered for the URLs too.
Classic case of a developer putting a backdoor in (for testing) and forgetting to take it out. I'm curious as to how long it will take to patch it and if there will be any fallout over this (they are the number 1 phone producer in the world).
No their not lol... Apple & HTC sell more phones then they do.
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I was in a British train station the other day and saw a poster containing 20 QR codes, one for each of a set a possible journeys from the station. Since I'm techy and had time to kill I scanned it, waiting to see the timetable information. Sadly the company who installed the posters was having some downtime, so it just errored. The annoying thing was that they were really just a URL shortening company, forwarding yo…
My local bus company has failed to grasp QR codes in a mind-bogglingly thorough way. Every stop has a poster with a QR code on it, advertising that you can now look up when the next bus will be here by scanning the QR code. The first thing you might notice is that the poster is actually a photo of a QR code on a poster, and is taken at an angle sufficient to render scanning the QR code impossible. The second thing yo…
Check the html in your desktop browser first, for all you know I might as well be a malicious douchebag.
The exploit seems to require a stock Samsung Galaxy dialer, works fine on my cheap Samsung Galaxy Y but not on my friend's modded S3 with a vanilla Android dialer.
Here's a safe version of the exploit that displays your IMEI: http://kristofferR.com/samsung.html Check the html in your desktop browser first, for all you know I might as well be a malicious douchebag. The exploit seems to require a stock Samsung Galaxy dialer, works fine on my cheap Samsung Galaxy Y but not on my friend's modded S3 with a vanilla Android dialer.
Here's a safe version of the exploit that displays your IMEI: http://kristofferR.com/samsung.html Check the html in your desktop browser first, for all you know I might as well be a malicious douchebag. The exploit seems to require a stock Samsung Galaxy dialer, works fine on my cheap Samsung Galaxy Y but not on my friend's modded S3 with a vanilla Android dialer.