Suddenly? It’s been labeled Chinese spyware since day one.

Same situation here in Germany, where companies are worried about attracting skilled foreign workers while right-wing extremist parties are gaining more and more votes.

The internet is uncharted land for all of us.

Our previous chancellor in 2013. Still is today it seems.

Does it have “WE DO NOT BREAK USERSPACE!” in golden letters somewhere?

Not use a hosting provider that charges by the amount of traffic?

This appears to be an extreme edge case but overall there is nothing preventing you from waking up to such a huge bill if your site turns into the most popular page on the internet over night.

I’ve never bothered with them, but aren’t there already? Additional stuff for your personal avatar?

Germany checking in: The chancellors wife at the time having ties to the copper industry doesn’t help either.

I strongly disagree. That’s like using MD5 and saying ‘It’s OK, we use SHA256 down the line’. Information encrypted with it might as well be in plain text.

Forget about biometrics, they are way too insecure.

Our cameras have reached a stage where we can replicate fingerprints from photos. ‘What you are’ is useless when we leave part of us everywhere. And furthermore, in parts of the world, authorities can force you to unlock your device with biometrics but not with passwords.

No backup? No mercy!

I thought I lived in a pretty backwards part of Germany but your corner must be extremely off the grid!

To just name one example in Germany: Verification via robo call in WhatsApp.

AFAIK it won’t and should you still get a bottleneck you can limit the maximum resources a service may use.

Is the QR Code applied professionally to the surface, possibly behind some security feature such as glass or another surface finish? Is the menu on the table in the general style of the restaurant, or does it look off or entirely different? Is the QR code applied on top of something else, possible another QR code?

Don’t use apps which directly open QR codes. Any sensible app will tell what the information is before processing it.

And at last, the simplest and most efficient security measure of all: Commonsense. Don’t scan everything you come across. Restaurant menu? Sure. Some random poster out in the woods promising a quick buck, happy time or their like? Hard pass.

So the issue isn’t QR codes, but people being unable to recognize scammers additions to public infrastructure and the websites being scams. Basically, it’s the same principle as scammers sticking an additional device on top of cash machines.

No news here.

Tbf I am a Linux person and was still scratching my head somewhat.

Na, she’s still a person.

Depends on the implementation: I liked Eve Onlines model where, yes, you had to pay the sub but your character would train skills even while offline.So at least to me there was less of this classical fear of missing out.

Where would one get a 3d face scan from? For my part, I don’t have a scanning rig set up anywhere.

How so?

Oh, cool! I didn’t know that, even though I’ve contributed before. Thanks for mentioning!