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A QR code by itself is completely unreadable to a human. Can't this have the SSID / password too? All too often you see what should be simple textual data wrapped in this obtuse form which only specific machines can read. Text and a QR code can be read by everyone.

See: <https://twitter.com/adambowie/status/1521078234057695233> for context




>Can't this have the SSID/password too?

Already linked by people in this topic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code#Joining_a_Wi%E2%80%91F...

>All too often you see what should be simple textual data wrapped in this obtuse form which only specific machines can read.

>See: <https://twitter.com/adambowie/status/1521078234057695233> for context

This is misuse of QR code; QR codes should be used to encode large data or some other clunky data that is hard for people to process that's why it is easier to look up such data/information with QR code and process/read it digitally. After all you have a camera in your pocket and a preinstalled QR code scanner(at least all new Android phones have). The main use case of QR codes that I see is simply linking you to a website. For example your favorite food brand links you to their website to explore their offering.

>Text and a QR code can be read by everyone.

Yea I agree with you that both plain text and a QR code should be shared so people can use what suits them the best at that particular moment.


Agreed. Where I used to work, IT started replacing the guest wifi (password changes monthly) with QR code instead of printing out the password on a piece of paper. It's really cumbersome when I want to join on my laptop.




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