QR codes have been with us for a long time now, and after passing through their Gardenesque hype cycle of inappropriate usage, have now settled down to be an important and ubiquitous part of life. … ...

QR codes are usually associated with ASCII text like URLs or serial numbers, but did you know you can also encode binary data into them? To demonstrate this concept, [MattKC] embarked on a journey … ...

Unfortunately, encoding HTML into a QR code is also not a walk in the park, with the usual go-to Base64 conversion route leaving very little of an already meagre storage budget for the game itself.

QR code-based phishing, or “quishing,” is not new. INKY itself warned about its growing prominence back in 2023, but forward two years and INKY says that attackers are now going a step further by ...

QR codes–square, dot-matrix variants of the venerable UPC–are becoming an increasingly popular way to share information such as URLs, contact details, GPS coordinates, and calendar events. The ...

Backdooms is a compressed, self-extracting program encoded entirely within a single QR code. When scanned, it launches an infinitely generated HTML environment resembling Doom-style corridors ...

QR codes get a bad rap. Yes they are ugly. Yes they are kind of a pain to scan. But they are a pretty good way of encoding text into an image that you can slurp up at a glance with just a camera.