[LINK] Airlink

[Richard Chirgwin]

I just love the idea of habituating people to an attack vector. "Oh 
look. You can't see the URL or link. But you'll use it anyway."

We'll have the Arlink attack IQ test within a year.

RC

On 23/05/12 8:26 AM, Tom Worthington wrote:
> On 21/05/12 14:31, Rick Welykochy wrote:
>> David Boxall wrote:
>>
>>> Interesting technology from Fairfax. Something embedded in printed
>>> photos that a mobile's camera can pick up. A development of those 2D
>>> barcode things? ...
>> This sounds like a URL embedded in a barcode called  QR code ...
> There are no barcodes evident to the unaided eye on Airlink photos,
> making this a form of Steganography:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography
>
> It is not clear how useful this will be, as the whole idea of
> steganography is to hide information, in this case a web address, in a
> photo. In the examples I have seen in the newspaper, each photo is
> accompanied by a block of text with something like "Airlink for more
> information scan the photo of the front of the house. For more details
> see page 3.". If each photo with a hidden code has to be marked this
> way, they might as well use a visible code, which would take up less
> space than the explanatory text.
>
>