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While I appreciate your points, personally, I'm wary. I've seen stickers overlaid on top of printed codes, and/or social hacks to dupe people into downloading m
by nirvanatikku 14y ago
While I appreciate your points, personally, I'm wary. I've seen stickers overlaid on top of printed codes, and/or social hacks to dupe people into downloading malware.
I went to the media lab not too long ago and got to see VR codes. Imperceptible patterns ftw. This doesn't necessarily relate to your points about the opportunity cost of placing QR codes on packaging (after all, VR codes are designed for digital displays), but I think QR codes are sort of a stepping stone.
- edent 14y agoThe QR malware is an area I've addressed [0] - there are some hacks out there, to be sure. I love the idea of imperceptible patterns but then you have the problem of how you let the user know that there's a pattern there to scan! It's the same issue with NFC - you need a symbol that a user will recognise to mean "Scan me" [0] http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2011/12/how-to-prevent-qr-hijacking/ http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2011/12/how-to-prevent-qr-hijacking/
- nirvanatikku 14y agoFair point on imperceptible patterns (until we have something like google glass :b). On the matter of addressing QR malware, you must appreciate that in order for the technology to be safe and widely adopted, the _masses_ must be educated on all the points you bring up. Every time I realize how such information needs to be understood by the lay person, I'm led to believe that QR codes won't become 'the internet of things'. My 2c.
- 3JPLW 14y agoThe problem isn't getting a user to recognize that they need to scan something... it's that the user needs to scan something! We need to get things automatically scanning other things.
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