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Re: A Serious Bitcoin Security Warning!!!
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kryptqnick
on 24/10/2019, 18:11:31 UTC
Here's another privacy issue and extra-carefulness is always needed!
There are a lot of people who use QR codes to share different data (also to share bitcoin or other cryptos) from their smartphones and the article below states the risks of using QR codes.  

https://www.forbes.com/sites/billybambrough/2019/09/12/researchers-have-issued-a-serious-bitcoin-qr-code-warning/#3254ef2c6d12
I remember some similar stuff going on a month ago or so. It's terrible that QR-code misdirections work like this. I've never used a QR code to perform a financial operation and I don't intend to do that. I cannot distinguish one QR-code from another, which means I cannot be sure whether I'm sending money to the right person. When I see an address, I'm always checking it a couple of times before finalizing the operation. I think it's easy enough to use addresses, so why generate something you might not understand or use it to put the operation at risk? With these troubling QR-code cases I hope people will start using them less.