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The first time I saw them being used all over the place was last November in Kona Hawaii where the restaurants all had them permanently mounted on each table. They brought up menus for the most part, but in one place they brought up a list of the 90+ beers they served with info on each.

Now, I see them everywhere, on TV, in every magazine I read, in stores, everywhere.

And I like them. They make things a lot easier and smoother for me in a lot of cases.
 
Posts: 10626 | Location: Gilbert Arizona | Registered: March 21, 2013Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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I've never scanned one and I'm not going to scan any. If I go to a restaurant that wants me to scan QR codes or pull up their menu on my phone, too bad. I have no phone. I need a physical menu, or I'll go somewhere else.

Do you really know what's going on in the background when you scan these things? No, you do not. For all you know, you're giving the Chinese access to your data.
 
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I agree. Its much easier than www.howdoyouspellthiswithsoraz...ellthiswithsoraz.com

I would have no issues scanning one on a restaurant menu. I would not scan one attached to a flier on a telephone pole.


 
Posts: 5489 | Location: Pittsburgh, PA, USA | Registered: February 27, 2001Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Have never scanned any and have no plans on doing so...... to many people have too much access to our info already as it is. Computers are going to be ruination of us because we are allowing it to happen. Just like the tracking of your cell phone.. If it is turned on then they can track your everyday movements. ... If not then send me proof......... drill sgt.
 
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Never done it … Never will.





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Posts: 26758 | Location: dughouse | Registered: February 04, 2003Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Seeing them now on TV, commercials are putting the codes in for you to scan for more information, pretty smart, ou can hook a potential buyer right there into your product.

Think one of the super bowl commercials was nothing more than a QR code, you had to scan it to see what was in it...

Regarding Paras aversion to scanning a QR, there are risks, it exists, seems that a QR could be used to direct your device to a malicious site....

Link Fake OR codes

In Austin, Houston and San Antonio TX fake QR codes were put on the city parking meters, people would scan them, it would send you to a fake pay site, where you would enter your financial info to pay for parking and bam they have your data.

So you have to be careful as there is risk to scanning them, probably not on a box of cereal to get more info, but anywhere a crook might alter the QR the codes can launch application code (Java) or direct you to a fake payment center.

Link below has some interesting history on QR

Wiki Link QR
 
Posts: 24656 | Location: Gunshine State | Registered: November 07, 2008Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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I do not scan. No plans to start.


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I agree. Its much easier than www.howdoyouspellthiswithsoraz...ellthiswithsoraz.com

I would have no issues scanning one on a restaurant menu. I would not scan one attached to a flier on a telephone pole.


You have more faith in restaurants and more importantly the people they outsource their technology to than I do.

But yeah...I would definitely also avoid the flier on the telephone pole.
 
Posts: 462 | Location: Illinois | Registered: June 13, 2020Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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When i was setting up our company’s mobility program we installed a system that allowed our technicians to use their company issued iPad to scan various various QR codes that we could customize. Want to enter that electrical cabinet, scan the QR code next to the disconnect and up pops the entry requirements for that specific cabinet. Need the calibration procedure for that piece of equipment? Scan the QR code on the side of it.

It is a great program with very robust security. What I learned while admining the program is why I do not ever scan QR codes. Way too easy to spoof.



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Posts: 3947 | Location: Jacksonville, FL | Registered: September 10, 2010Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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QR codes. Another way to scam people. Why anyone with half a brain would do this is beyond me.
 
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Checkout registers at Publix grocery stores, and also at Walmart, show a QR code. Use the store's app to scan the code and payment is made quickly via a credit card that is linked to the app.

I don't really worry about this specific use; the credit card that I use for this sends me a notification, virtually instant, any time that there is a charge of more than one dollar on the card, so I would be able to catch any fraudulent use immediately.

I have been using both Walmart Pay and Publix Pay for a few years, have not had any problems.

Menu in a restaurant? Nope, not for that. Give me a printed menu or I eat elsewhere.



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When you go out to eat - it's not just only for the food so who in effing hell want's to jack with their phone unless you are 14 years old?
I make a point to not touch my phone when out to dinner with the wife or others, to me it's rude to be on you phone during that period of time.
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There's nothing on my phone that anyone can do anything at all with.

The restaurants all will give you a printed menu if you prefer, or just can't figure out how to make it work like a lot of older people.

For those who fly, your boarding pass has a QR code on it that gets scanned by the people at the gate.

Like them or not, use them or not, get used to seeing them because they're rapidly becoming something you see everywhere.

People who are opposed to them remind me of people who said they'd never use the internet, people who said they'd never use a Credit Card and people who said they'd never use a cell phone. If you want to be a dinosaur, that's your privilege. I choose not to be.
 
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Oh, yeah. "Dinosaur". As opposed to all those forward-thinking boobs who gave their CC info to thieves, in the link HRK provided. Do you know who didn't get ripped off like that? The "dinosaurs" Razz

With all your enthusiasm for scanning things, you may very well be in for a rude (and expensive) awakening.


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Like them or not, use them or not, get used to seeing them because they're rapidly becoming something you see everywhere....



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There's nothing on my phone that anyone can do anything at all with.


That may be true, however the issue isn't hacking into your phone, but a QR that seems legit, from a Legit source that ends up directing your phone to a malicious web page that looks real, and getting you to enter information.

That is what happened on the link provided earlier about Parking Meters in TX, not just Austin, but Houston, San Antonio and in other countries around the world.

Like anything Tech, you just have to be careful who you get it from and what you do with it..
 
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I have a QR code on my phone that I scan at Home Depot to get my military discount.

That's pretty much the extent of scanning for this old dinosaur.




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I don't partake in the scan me thing.
I expect a traditional menu when I dine out even when everybody else at the table gladly uses the scan and reads the menu items on there phones.
At other types of stores I expect a salesperson.

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I guess I'm another dinosaur. I have never scanned a QR code and have no plans to.



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Oh, yeah. "Dinosaur". As opposed to all those forward-thinking boobs who gave their CC info to thieves, in the link HRK provided. Do you know who didn't get ripped off like that? The "dinosaurs" Razz

With all your enthusiasm for scanning things, you may very well be in for a rude (and expensive) awakening.


Actually, I won't. I know how to protect myself from it. It's very simple. Don't put anything sensitive on your phone.

I was told 25+ years ago I'd get nailed on the net (by dinosaurs) and nobody's even come close so no, I'm not worried at all.

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There's nothing on my phone that anyone can do anything at all with.


That may be true, however the issue isn't hacking into your phone, but a QR that seems legit, from a Legit source that ends up directing your phone to a malicious web page that looks real, and getting you to enter information.

That is what happened on the link provided earlier about Parking Meters in TX, not just Austin, but Houston, San Antonio and in other countries around the world.

Like anything Tech, you just have to be careful who you get it from and what you do with it..


If you're stupid enough to put in sensitive information in a website a QR code takes you to, you really shouldn't be using a computer or going on the net. I'll look at what's there, but I won't enter anything.
 
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