Reading – Heinz Ketchup QR Code Takes You to Porn Site
I’ve always been bothered by the idea of QR codes. I felt that they undermined everything we tried to teach users about online security. Don’t open email attachments that you weren’t expecting, don’t blindly follow links without checking where they go, or just go to the website and login without clicking a link in an email, but then the marketing people got into the QR game and realized they could get people to “play” with their smartphones and scan a code, and that code could take them anywhere the marketer wanted to take them, and suddenly that seemed like something we should encourage? No, no and no. As this story points out, as a user, you have no idea where that QR code is taking you, are you really ok with that?
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