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@Grimblob

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Grimblob 1d ago

Bill the Lizard 1d ago

Narrator voice: It was, in fact, 10,000 lines of bug-filled crap.

Grimblob 3d ago

J. L. Westover 3d ago

Secret Panel HERE 😮 https://tapas.io/episode/2361115

Grimblob 4d ago

Grimblob 4d ago

𝚝𝚓𝚠 4d ago

It's wild that some people in the tech industry *want* us to believe that they have sapient beings running on their computers which, if true, would make them guilty of slavery.

Comics Outta Context Aug 7

CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch)

Hingehenge

donni saphire Aug 7

You can do anything you want! If it’s not too hard and you’re not too tired. Basically, you can do some things, occasionally

Neil Brown Aug 6

World Wide* Web

* Offer not available in the United Kingdom.

Paul Kater Aug 5

Across continents and millennia, what truly unites humanity is our need to be left the fuck alone at home.
From “The shortest history of China” by Linda Jaivin.

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Charlie Stross Aug 4

This. Just, this.

Sally Strange Aug 4

@cstross oooh facepaint that right on my forehead please

VanisleJay Aug 4

@SallyStrange @cstross i was just about to say this would be an excellent face tattoo

Ian Campbell Aug 4

@cstross I hope you're familiar with the EICAR test string ;)

My pal @unknownbinaries did up a tee with it as a QR code.

https://unknownbinaries.threadless.com/designs/eicar-qr

@neurovagrant @cstross @unknownbinaries Woah! Anyone able to find a source in Europe?

trainguyrom Aug 4

@anotherdaniel @neurovagrant @cstross @unknownbinaries could probably make one on any online print shop...as long as their systems don't try to read the QR code and then quarantine themselves!

Ian Campbell Aug 4

@trainguyrom @anotherdaniel @cstross @unknownbinaries and if they do, you know not to use that service ;)

sanitize your inputs, people!

(one of the funniest parts of the whole AI/LLM/MCP server stuff is they're like "huh? what? who could have expected we'd need to sanitize inputs?!")

🔥 this is fine Aug 4

@neurovagrant @trainguyrom @anotherdaniel @cstross @unknownbinaries I am not saying that a huge grocery store chain in norway is vulnerable to this "attack" in their self service tills, I would not know anything about that, no need to ask any further questions

Cadbury Moose Aug 4

@agathos @neurovagrant @trainguyrom @anotherdaniel @cstross @unknownbinaries

Facial recognition -> goatse.cx/hello.jpg

(Actually, I must try that QR code on Morrisons self-service till....)

... The ICQ flower?!

🔥 this is fine Aug 6

@tirrimas yes it is the icq flower in my profile pic, if that is what you are asking?

@agathos I still remember my number. Best messaging app

🔥 this is fine Aug 6

@tirrimas yes, i remember it as good, and that is why I choose it as my pic. I had my friends on there and I met some cool people at an icq meetup thing back in the day. I lied to my parents about going because they thought the internet was a scary place.

But then I saw that icq closed down last year, and I read up about it and it was not a wholesome community the last years. Unfortunately it got bought up and used by not so nice people. Oh well. It was good back in the day!

@agathos yeah, it started going downhill once AOL bought it and shoehorned ads in. It's too bad

@neurovagrant @cstross @unknownbinaries I wish that provoked something stupider than a web search, though.

BTW please enjoy:

Kzad_Bhat Aug 4

@jwz @neurovagrant @cstross @unknownbinaries

if something could be done for those who wear glasses that only reflects wavelengths visible to electronic eyes in a qr code..

just musing..

Philippa Cowderoy Aug 4

@neurovagrant @cstross @unknownbinaries How big a zip bomb can you get in one, anyway? And can you fit the EICAR string in an unpleasantly long way in?...

Earthshine Aug 4

@flippac @neurovagrant @cstross @unknownbinaries if you're executing arbitrary code from a QR code, I think a zip bomb is the least of your worries.

Philippa Cowderoy Aug 4

@earthshine @neurovagrant @cstross @unknownbinaries it doesn't need to be executed - just mishandled by careless AV

Charlie Stross Aug 4

@earthshine @flippac @neurovagrant @unknownbinaries QR code to download a PDF containing Javascript (which the PDF standard now incorporates) to dynamically generate a zip bomb containing infinite copies of itself.

Ian Campbell Aug 4

@cstross @earthshine @flippac @unknownbinaries Friends, friends. Zip bombs are old news.

Now that LLMs have been incorporated everywhere without the merest of guardrails, all we need the QR code to do is tarpit them.

https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes/

ZADZMO code

Earthshine Aug 4

@cstross @flippac @neurovagrant @unknownbinaries isn't modern software great?

Phil Haigh Aug 4

@neurovagrant @cstross @unknownbinaries I have that as a QR code on the underside of my laptop…

Phil Haigh Aug 4

@neurovagrant @cstross @unknownbinaries anyone nosey enough to scan it deserves all they get 🤣🤣🤣

Andreas Albrecht Aug 4

@neurovagrant @cstross @unknownbinaries
There's an older discussion on the topic here in my and @catsalad's timeline, not only with the EICAR, but also with a nice SQL bomb (remember Bobby Tables? 😉). Please feel free to make a shirt out of it.

On German ambulances are QR codes leading to pages informing about why it's bad to film victims and rescuers. A good idea. Makes filming impossible if your camera app opens QR codes right away without user consent...

CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch)

@Datterich @neurovagrant @cstross @unknownbinaries Hehe

https://darmstadt.social/@Datterich/112206082557084778

Andreas Albrecht (@Datterich@darmstadt.social)

Attached: 1 image @catsalad@infosec.exchange @egeltje@infosec.exchange @nc@infosec.exchange I couldn't resist. :idle: (Content in ALT text.)

darmstadt.social

Andreas Albrecht Aug 4

@neurovagrant @cstross @unknownbinaries
We need stickers!

What do I say - posters, billboard-sized!

Imagine one of the G00gle cars drive by, scanning for Street View, wifis, and... Gemini?

PS: Thanks, @catsalad, for looking up the old thread. I'm not good at that... How are you so organized?

CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch)

@Datterich @neurovagrant @cstross @unknownbinaries Everything I favorite becomes searchable in my fulltext search, so I use search quite often.

EICAR in:library has:media

@neurovagrant @cstross @unknownbinaries what happens, when scanned?

rk: it’s hyphen-minus actually Aug 4

https://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm

BLIT - a short story by David Langford

Charlie Stross Aug 4

@rk See also comp.basilisk.faq: https://ansible.uk/writing/c-b-faq.html

comp.basilisk FAQ

Mark T. Tomczak Aug 4

@cstross @rk Fun fact: a train of thought like this is what twigged me to your writing.

I was musing online years ago (and ignoring the whole House of M Marvel story arc, because I don't read comics closely enough) that Scarlet Witch's powers should generally be far more hideous than they are portrayed in the comics... A probability-bending power shouldn't make The Thing slip on a banana peel, it should be creating crime-scenes where the cops had to call in some lab-boys from Oscorp to help them understand how 95% of a man's carbon-14 could spontaneously, simultaneously decay into nitrogen-14.

... and a friend on Facebook asked if I'd read The Laundry Files...

Janeishly Aug 4

@cstross "What Happened at Cambridge IV" by David Langford is one of my favourite short stories ever (and I've got it in an anthology with Terry Pratchett's "ifdefDEBUG + ‘world/enough’ + ‘time’", which is another absolute belter).

Rehana Rodrigues Aug 4

@cstross Snow QRash.

@cstross Let's not give ICE ideas. :/

Woozle Hypertwin Aug 4

@Angle @cstross Are there phones that will do that automatically? The most I've ever seen is where the camera automatically detects and interprets the QR code, but if it's a URL you have to tap on it in order to actually point a browser at it.

Alberto Cottica Aug 4

@cstross reminds me of your Basilisk CCTV system, Charlie.

@cstross every cop and federal agent adopts it as part of their uniform in 0.02 seconds

shift/reset Aug 4

@cstross It's a great idea, but now I'm thinking of just having a rickroll tee

That was where my mind went

Eric A. Meyer Aug 4

@cstross So a reverse Scorpion Stare, of a sort. I dig it.

@cstross Yes, please.

@cstross I had a T-shirt made with a qr code linking to goatse. Then figured I might have gone too far.

@cstross I got this shirt. Sadly it does not work as well as one would think it would.

trainguyrom Aug 4

@nblr @cstross I'm guessing that's the pattern of yellow dots on US Currency to prevent scanning it?

AndiS 🌞🍷🇪🇺Aug 4

Not only US currency. It is an international standard!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_c…

@trainguyrom @nblr @cstross

EURion constellation - Wikipedia

Gerard Thornley Aug 4

@trainguyrom @nblr @cstross
Not just America.

Gerard Thornley Aug 4

@nblr @cstross That's a shame. I've been meaning to make one of those for years.

Jernej Simončič �Aug 4

@cstross Saw something about the Germans experimenting with something like this on ambulances.

@mack505 @cstross https://www.johanniter.de/johanniter-unfall-hilfe/gaffen-toetet-ein-design-das-leben-retten-kann/?utm_campaign=gaffen-toetet&utm_content=bg&utm_medium=redirect is the background to the German ambulances with QR code.

Das Projekt „Gaffen tötet!“ der Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe

Alle Informationen zum Johanniter-Projekt "Gaffen tötet" - Ein QR-Code hält Schaulustige vom Fotografieren am Unfallort ab.

@cstross and please sign me up, I want one too

Jeffrey Schrab Aug 4

@cstross Every time I see something like this I think to myself, Monty Python‘s “The Killer Joke” seemed like such a silly idea at the time…

peachfront Aug 4

but then it interferes with my style if i have to wear the same shirt all the time...

what to do, what to do

@peachfront @cstross surely someone has made a discreet but tempting enamel pin :)

Uilebheist Aug 4

@peachfront @cstross Obviously, many shirts, each with a QR code to a different malware.
Just in case some phones block one.