• themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    Quite the opposite. That video by mattkc (iirc) repeatedly and unequivocally says that to make this work, he made his pc save the binary and explicitly run it using a python script, because doing it natively would be fucking insane

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      4 months ago

      You’re right, I must have been thinking of something else. Happily I can’t find any chatter about actual malware in QR codes (it’s all redirecting to malicious websites), though obviously there’s always the possibility of a new exploit being discovered.