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   Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud ) (blenderdumbass@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 20:14:34 JST Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud )

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   • Henry Fisher

   @henry I hate how seemingly strangely patterned the QR code is. This is unusual. Is there a way to learn what it encodes without executing anything?

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 20:14:34 JST 翠星石

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     • Henry Fisher
     @blenderdumbass @henry zbarimg will dump out anything a QR code encodes.
     
     It's just an url to a spam site.
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     Henry Fisher (henry@dindon.one)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 20:14:36 JST Henry Fisher

     A new wave of spam attacks has flooded Mastodon. Previously, unwanted messages could be managed with content filters, but now the situation is much more complicated: spam posts now only contain images without text, making them harder to filter. If an effective solution is not found, we risk soon being drowned in a flood of spam in the fediverse.

     #Mastodon #Spam #Fediverse #Cybersecurity #OnlineSafety