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QR Codes As Anti-Forgery On Currency Could Infect Banks

Posted by timothy on from the fiat-money's-been-hacked-long-ago dept.

New submitter planetzuda writes "Invisible nano QR codes have been proposed as a way to stop forgery of U.S. currency by students of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Unfortunately QR codes are easy to forge and can send you to a site that infects your system. Banks would most likely need to scan currency that have QR codes to ensure the authenticity of the bill. If the QR code was forged it could infect the bank with a virus."

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  1. Re:Sigh. by j00r0m4nc3r · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    This is the lamest conclusion I've seen yet on Slashdot - either flame bait or a submitter and editorial combined IQ of 50.

    Who has the lower IQ, the submitter, or the person who doesn't understand that encoded QR-code data could easily exploit a bug in the QR-code decoder library to execute arbitrary code? Not saying it's likely, but definitely within the realm of possibility. Remember the JPEG decoder exploit?