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What are you talking about? It sounds like you don’t understand what is going on here. Perhaps you think some data is going to Apple?

by grooot 4y ago

vorpalhex 4y ago
Having read the article I entirely understand what is going on here. Do you expect your images to be scanned on disk and the links in them to be opened, leaking your ip? What if you do something as simple as screenshot an address bar in a browser? Save a menu QR code? Now you are sending out traffic, accidentally, with your full ip to random places due to a service Apple inserted that you have no knowledge of.
- grooot 4y ago
  Do you seriously believe that your IP is private? Do you know every site that has received your ip address? I think the honest answer to both of these questions has to be no.
  - _justinfunk 4y ago
    I think the idea is that it is a way for your IP address to leak without a user-initiated request. I could send you a QR code that I've setup specifically to get your IP address.
    - grooot 4y ago
  - vorpalhex 4y ago
    http://letstrack.you/?id=grooot http://letstrack.you/?id=grooot Throw that to disk for me so I can map where you are, where you go, when your machine is up and how often your search indexing runs.
    - grooot 4y ago
- dev_tty01 4y ago
  I don't know, but I wouldn't be surprised if this is being done via Apple's private relay. If so, your IP address is not being leaked to anyone.
  - martin_a 4y ago
    The thread says she got an information that somebody requested the URL and it was her own IP address. So no private relay here.
flyinghamster 4y ago
If you have the misfortune of living in a country where accessing $BANNED_WEBSITE can get you a nighttime visit from the local goon squad, this could well get you tortured or killed.
- grooot 4y ago
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cycomanic 4y ago
There have been reported cases of using qr codes for phishing/malware distribution. Previously they still required users to actually use a qr code scanner, now I need to simply glue some qr code at a famous tourist photo spot and bang lots of people accessing the site (does the indexer execute js?).

What are you talking about? It sounds like you don’t understand what is going on here. Perhaps you think some data is going to Apple?

by grooot 4y ago

What are you talking about? It sounds like you don’t understand what is going on here. Perhaps you think some data is going to Apple?

vorpalhex 4y ago

Having read the article I entirely understand what is going on here. Do you expect your images to be scanned on disk and the links in them to be opened, leaking your ip? What if you do something as simple as screenshot an address bar in a browser? Save a menu QR code? Now you are sending out traffic, accidentally, with your full ip to random places due to a service Apple inserted that you have no knowledge of.

grooot 4y ago
Do you seriously believe that your IP is private? Do you know every site that has received your ip address? I think the honest answer to both of these questions has to be no.
- _justinfunk 4y ago
  I think the idea is that it is a way for your IP address to leak without a user-initiated request. I could send you a QR code that I've setup specifically to get your IP address.
  - grooot 4y ago
- vorpalhex 4y ago
  http://letstrack.you/?id=grooot http://letstrack.you/?id=grooot Throw that to disk for me so I can map where you are, where you go, when your machine is up and how often your search indexing runs.
  - grooot 4y ago
dev_tty01 4y ago
I don't know, but I wouldn't be surprised if this is being done via Apple's private relay. If so, your IP address is not being leaked to anyone.
- martin_a 4y ago
  The thread says she got an information that somebody requested the URL and it was her own IP address. So no private relay here.

flyinghamster 4y ago

If you have the misfortune of living in a country where accessing $BANNED_WEBSITE can get you a nighttime visit from the local goon squad, this could well get you tortured or killed.

grooot 4y ago

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cycomanic 4y ago

There have been reported cases of using qr codes for phishing/malware distribution. Previously they still required users to actually use a qr code scanner, now I need to simply glue some qr code at a famous tourist photo spot and bang lots of people accessing the site (does the indexer execute js?).