Except if they were halfway intelligent they wouldn't have it go automatically to the site.
And when you do this and something goes really wrong criminal charges get laid.
I'm not sure if you could actually get criminal charges for this unless you were hosting the malware in which case that's another issue. It would essentially be the same as walking around with a website URL on your shirt. The observer is responsible for typing in the URL or scanning the code and what they decide to do on the website that follows.
There's the argument that you distrubuted it.
got it from a thrift shop, I don't even know what that square thing is
I don't know about the states, but here in Canada the government takes the position "ignorance of the law is not a defence".
You're not being ignorant of the law - you're being ignorant of the weird computer square printed on the shirt you thrifted
Claiming you didn't know it could cause harm isn't a defense in court in Canada.
Anymore bullshit?
Christ you're a cordial fellow
I was, I thought quite clearly, having a joking poke. Obviously "didn't know lol" isn't a defense.
Consider florida, where if you are caught with shrooms that are wet, freshly picked, they cannot convict you for carrying contraband because you do not necessarily know what you picked.
Laws are often based on intent. In some cases, penalties vary depending on intent. It would be an unacceptably brutally harsh law to judge someone under a presumption of harmful intent for something they might have no awareness of.
QR codes can have icons on them. Certainly if I created such a t-shirt, I would put some cool looking icon in the center of it. Someone being dragged through the system might argue “i did not know that qr code was real.. i just liked the cat in the middle of it”.
“Malice” implies intent. Accidents are not malicious. Neglect in the worst case. So certainly any charges could not be based on malice.
Same argument for having it direct you to somewhere like meatspin. Can't be distributing porn to minors.
I tend to agree that this is how it should be, that doesn't mean that's how it is. If you walk around with a T-shirt that says "kill all CEOs" along with where to find them, you're going to run into some trouble, despite being a similar situation- you're just giving instructions, it's up to the viewer what to do with them.
Except the shirt doesn't say "visit this site, there are cool things on it". If you're gonna make the comparison to CEOs then it would be like putting a CEOs address on your shirt.
Except that people are not halfway intelligent.
Can we just get a website that plays a soundbite at full volume screaming about how they person is bad at privacy practices, maybe with Korn in the background for maximum embarrassment?
Finally a good use for these music generator AIs
Criminal charges? It’s called the 1st amendment bro.
Not if it incites violence, causes harm or any of the other carve outs in the first amendment of the USA.
I am aware that the post is supposed to be funny, and you are most likely making a joke, but this is the internet and these sort of disclaimers tend to be necessary.
a URL to malware doesn't cause harm, the idiot who opens it does.
A smart attack would be coupled with a clear message. Have the malware clobber them with anti-evil messages and just like that you have a sound free speech defense.
I'm ok just targeting the ones that aren't halfway intelligent for now.
Why not just use this one?
I knew what it would be. I still grabbed my phone. I saw youtube. I still clicked it.
At this point I do it just to feel something
I feel...him
YouTube? Ok, I was going to guess goatse, but guessing not now.
Search your heart. You know what it is. You know.
It's not healthy that my mind goes right to goatse is it?
If you immediately thought of goatse when imagining the results of a link prank it probably means you have some lingering trauma from using the internet when the last century was old or when this one was new, as many here do. If you immediately thought of goatse when someone asked you what your plans for your birthday are, that might be an issue.
no. You are clinically fucked I would know my dad works at hospital.
Don't give up
Dang it, my streak was going well till this
Don't let yourself down like that. Start a new streak.
Dairy Queen, word for word.
I'll skip it :)
Snowcrash
i ge en i ge en nu ge en nu ge en us sa tur ra lu ra ze em men...
The largest QR code can hold up to 3 kb of data, which is more than enough to write a nasty virus in an injectable script if aimed at specific devices/apps. The main hurdle is breaking the app to execute the code instead of treating it as a string. It's the Drop Bobby Tables joke. Developers hopefully don't fall for this anymore.
Anyway. Making a shitty link and leading people there isn't a new idea. You don't even need a t-shirt. Hackers already place their own printed QR labels on top of otherwise real codes, and the user might not even notice, because they'll be redirected to the right site after the dirty deed is done dirt cheap.
here's an idea : let it redirect to a URL but with it's query params tweaked so it automatically attempts an SQL injection on the website when loading
Outsourcing hacking? Not bad.
Tragically they were beaten to death in broad daylight by police, but there was no surviving evidence.
X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*
Probably the closest you're going to get
Correct :-) Has been done:
https://web.archive.org/web/20210116105900/https://www.revk.uk/2020/01/eicar-test-qr.html
Depending on what they plan to use the video for, a middle finger can be sufficient.
Having worked in TV news, I’ve long thought the way arrested politicians or whoever that are trying to avoid being filmed leaving a courthouse by holding a folder or coat in front of their face should instead just hold both middle fingers up right in front of their face. The image won’t be used, and if it is, it will make it very clear how they feel about the citizens.
Sounds a bit Snowcrashy.
So I thought I pulled a great prank once. I made a QR code that directed to lemonparty. I used an online sticker service's free trial to print a bunch up with my friend's Instagram at the bottom. I travel all over for work so I was going to put them everywhere.
My problem was I printed them in yellow and they wouldn't scan. I told my friend and he thought it was a funny idea just like I knew he would, not a malicious prank. Wish it had worked.
