I'm kinda glad this happened but suspect the council will not learn from it. Anyone know the story here? Did someone just replace visible QR codes with a mischi

I'm kinda glad this happened but suspect the council will not learn from it. Anyone know the story here? Did someone just replace visible QR codes with a mischievous link? When will these idiots learn that the more complex you make a simple appliance by adding "smartphone" crap to it, the more hackable and less reliable it will be. Civic infrastructure, especially for transport, needs to be plug-in-and-go, and independent of internet connection or any device the user may or may not have. Rampant solutionism now poses a major security risk, and the real engineering challenge is now getting minimal, robust design back onto the priority list. There's a really good case for simply making these things free as an environmental subsidy to encourage EV use, and dumping all the over-engineered payment and tracking rubbish.