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QR codes are a liability for the restaurant. Restaurants are places where the regulars gather at predictable hours, and predictable days, and predictable table
by pvaldes 4y ago
QR codes are a liability for the restaurant.
Restaurants are places where the regulars gather at predictable hours, and predictable days, and predictable tables, and don't see suspicious to give personal dietary info linked with credit cards.
Is really surprising that nobody has tried still to swap a chunk of paper or put a stick over the QR code at the table to substitute it with a different QR code hacked, so when you order, they redirect you to the official web and at the same time silently copy your personal info in a different web.
Or replaces he lamb dish of a notorius iman with a dish containing pork.
Or allows a paparazzi to change the impossible meat hamburguer of a famous vegan actress by something made of real meat. The paparazzi takes photos and sell some profitable outrage disguised as restaurant error.
Or change the dish of a CEO allergic to peanuts by one that contains a sauce made with spinach and peanut butter
Or spice the dish of a major league baseball or tennis player with a drug, so it fails the next anti doping test. It does not matter that he wear dark glasses, has grown a beard and is unrecognizable. Will be instantly caught by the personal data linked to him.
Or orders somebody in a kitchen to put a pinch of polony in that dish in the table 5. Don't need the complicity of the waiter anymore, and the dish will be served with a smile and no sweating by a waiter that will end in jail without even suspecting it.
The possibilities to abuse the system are endless. They are like the .exe dancing banana attachment of our time, except that you eat the banana now, so this time the target is your body instead your computer.
Most restaurants would not notice the replacement until later (or would never notice it if the next client in that table restores the original QR code). Specially in a world where people don't talk with the waiters anymore, or were replaced by robots.