Information security question

@ieure can't you do an opaque app specific deep link by using a URL shortener and pointing it to say zoom://whatever and open a zoom meeting? Just as an example

Also I contend that many many people do not have the digital literacy to understand even the slightest bit of what a plaintext URL is telling them.

Like 14 Feb 2022 at 18:47 | Open on friend.camp

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external quantum efficiency

Information security question

@darius @ieure hmm I think there are code paths available via QR that aren't available to a bitly redirect, like maybe vcard?

Hmmm, there's lots of interesting stuff to do here https://github.com/zxing/zxing/wiki/Barcode-Contents I like "join my wifi network"

14 Feb 2022 at 21:21 | Open on aleph.land

prasoon

Information security question

@darius
Most non-tech people I know don't understand anything about urls. This includes people who only use apps to access the Internet, browser not being one of them, and people who know that they can open some links in a browser but, don't know about any part of the url or what it does.
My personal observations have been consistent with what my friends working with fake news in low digital literate communities found.

16 Feb 2022 at 11:53 | Open on mastodon.social