With the proliferation of barcode readers, it becomes more and more apparent that traditional applications that rely on these codes: item tracking and warehousing have no built-in security, some even allowing direct executable code injection via barcodes.<p><a href="http://www.securitytube.net/Hacking-Barcodes-video.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://www.securitytube.net/Hacking-Barcodes-video.aspx</a>
This makes a ton of sense. It's incredibly surprising nobody has done this / publicized it already. Win.<p>(I ran into an error trying to connect with fb; second time worked.)
Nice but this is basically what <a href="http://www.p8tch.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.p8tch.com/</a> has been doing for years with real qr codes. You get a patch with a qr-code that you can redirect to any URL you want.<p>I have one on my backpack, sorry for the awful picture: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/DvyCy.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/DvyCy.png</a>