Better known as the QR code, these two-dimensional box things are several generations up from the good old bar code of the 80s and 90s.
In effect they do very much the same thing but are far more versatile and are there to make our lives easier, especially when it comes to making e-payments or returning items to places like Amazon.
Yesterday, for example, I wanted to return a hard drive to Amazon. They emailed me back with a QR code. The instructions were to take my phone to the nearest applicable Post Office, fire up the email and let them scan the QR code, which in turn prints off a return label for the package.
All very convenient of course, but it also makes quite a few assumptions – not least that you have a smartphone, but also have the nous to make sure it has your email app installed in order to launch the QR code.
In the old days,Amazon would email you a Returns Address label, which you printed off, cut out and affixed to your package (but again this assumed you had a printer!). But now everything is gearing towards QR and that we all need to be be ready for it.
However, there are a huge number of security issues with QR codes, not least is that you haven’t got the foggiest idea what information has been coded into that QR code when you scan it with your phone.
Scanning a code from a reliable retailer such as Amazon, is probably okay; but you have to be extremely careful scanning Codes from the public domain, such as coffee outlets, charity shops or from spam emails asking you to scan a code in order for you to receive a big prize!
I won’t bore you with the details (see links below), but the dangers of QR codes has never really been spelt out to the public (unless you do your homework), especially young people who don’t care about the dangers, but just want the convenience.
QR codes is a form of contactless payment, part of the Cashless Society Project. But QR codes just like apps and emails contain viruses, misleading information, collect your personal information and all sorts of additional security risks people are walking blindly into.
Be careful what you scan!
Nominated by: Technocunt
Can I get QR sex?
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Also known as Quare.
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As an elderly chap it pisses me off that so many basic daily operations can only be completed by waving your smartphone at a screen.
Don’t have a smart phone? Tough shit!
Not very inclusive is it.
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Quite right, Guzzi! I refuse to carry one. During trick and trace some cunt in a restaurant asked me to scan the QR code and I produced my steam driven burner. He then asked me to fill in my name and address, so I gave pre-prepared bogus details. He didn’t give a toss, all he needed was some shit to hand over if asked by the covids nazis.
Not being traceable via a mobile is very beneficial to the health. I know this is true because I never got covids and was never contacted about the vakzine.
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I did the same. “Mr Kok Sukka” was my nom de plume in most places. no-one ever said anything.
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The only cunt codes I have used are for train tickets and sending something back to Amazon, no way would I scan one of these fucking things.
‘Do you want a receipt’, yes I fucking do!
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Scammers are making their own and putting them over genuine QR codes for payment in car parks to lead you in to giving them your card details (don’t get me started on parking apps, the cunts). If somewhere wants me to pay like that I just fuck right off.
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Gone as far as I can, or want to with technology. Some bits I can’t be arsed.
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just get one tattooed on the palm of your hand.
no fancy smartphone required.
perfect.
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Some of the IsAC Horn Section could get the tattoo on their todgers. What jury could convict them for displaying their gnarled weapons inTesco?
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I have the QR scanner on my phone switched off.
If I need to look at something, I go the web address.
Even during COVID, all I was doing was taking a photo off that track and trace QR code bollocks and then deleting the photo once seated.
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Eff qr codes and apps.
And why does every website i visit want me to sign up for 10% off? Sorry you having my details for a lousy 10% off is not a good deal.
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I’m only the youthful age of 41 and yet I’ve never scanned a single QR code, I only use cheap dummy phones and only on PAYG: never on contract.
My current phone’s a Nokia 105 4th Edition which cost me 25 quid and it’s even more shit than my first even mobile which was the Philips Savvy TCD128 back in 1999/2000.
Fuck modern mobile phone/IT technology, fuck the fuckers who conceived it and fuck the fuckers whose fucking lives depend on it.
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*I meant “Ever”….. not “even”. Derp!
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Same here TITS.
My dumb phone can’t read emojis some of my customers send me in a text rather than just saying what they fucking mean or any photos. Bliss.
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Yeah same here. When my Mum texts me back, she always ends the message with 2 small squares and I have no idea what they signify.
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I have to say that, technophobic as I am, I do use emojies.
The thread is usually a screen shot of a DHL/Amazon/Evri ( insert your favourite shite service here)
That read ” will be delivered today”
No timescale at all. Delivered to my address because they all work and of course, I’m home.
Run out of milk, tough shit!
Anyway, if I get such a message, they get a thumbs up, to indicate I’ll be home, or a Gif ( yes, them too) that says “So sad, I’m not home”
Personally, I love them.
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I’m seriously considering going back to my Nokia 2630. The only reason I went smartphone was for a diabetes app which stopped working after a few months.
OT but I’ve just had 1.5L of 6.8% Perry and it’s the first alcohol I’ve had in 18 months. it feels fucking great!
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I suspect I’ve overdone it somewhat with an additional 10 units of Woods rum.
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Your at home, Moggie, what’s the worst thing can happen?
Don’t climb the stairs if you’re unsteady, lie on the sofa/floor.
Get a bucket.
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I can offer some practical advice as this very day I had to send something back to Amazon and I do ot have a smart phone. You can still get a return form (provided you have a printer or can get to the library to print one off there).
You phone 0207 084 7911 and ignore the irritating tart (recorded voice) beseeching you to accept a text message or email(say No) they ask the question a second rime. say No again and they will put you throughto an opearive. I did it and got some woman in Jamaica. Innit.
Still parcel in the post this afternoon and already the credit has been appended to my account.
Your welcome.
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Hookers could get these tattooed on their butts with a full list of services. Save punters the hassle of asking if they do anal.
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Prozzas should have information above their arse, stating which hole do you require. You have on your cock, how much is this one (arse) or this one (fanny) and keep interchanging undecidedly. By that time, you’ve shot your load and say I’ll leave it till next time.
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Only used one once, that was to acknowledge a pick-up was made and to get my money from Ebay.
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I have no problem with these, any more than barcodes. I can’t read either of the fuckers so who cares.
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I wondered what they were for, thought it was for our multiculturalism enthusiast’s ie a foreign language, all squiggles and suchlike.
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In the tiny Town I live, supermarkets still have cash only tills. At the most a bank card scan, if it doesn’t work, put in your pin. Have I gone back in time ?
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Q***r codes, hhhmm , is there a subtext here..
ie, do you like it shoved right up your ARSE…!
https://biblia.com/bible/esv/leviticus/18/22
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As for the wondrous world of QR/PR codes, bar codes,…. airline e-tickets (NOT E-Stim)
Have any cunters had the misfortune to fly KLM, formerly Prince Bernard’s personal Luftwaffe, and now owned by les frouzes?
Do you know what their e-tickets look like? I have a thirteen digit no. beginning 74, but every time I try to get them to confirm, the price goes up.. or down.
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