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As millions take out their phones and thousands of #cybersecurity professionals die a slow death.

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Why exactly? You visit untrusted web pages every day, right? How is this any different? Honest question.

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because on phones qr codes can do a lot of other things. Depending on the app the action is immediate. E.g. connect to wifi, call phone number, open the map at a specific location, ...

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this is the exact same for links though. `tel:+12345678` for phone, `bingmaps:?cp=40.726966~-74.006076` for maps on windows.

10:57 AM · Feb 14, 2022