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Nice, if android even cares though. Dunno, what's the state of android AV these days?
And iOS I suppose, the glasses aren't attached to a laptop most likely. And does the app auto-open QR codes? Enquiring minds want to know, because this is a solid idea if it can be made to work.
There's some AV packages like Lookout that are pretty common in corporate environments.
And really any big data collection through apps will make itself to servers eventually if course. You don't need to open a URL for this to trigger, the eicar code being in memory of a process is enough.
Of course you do need to decode the QR. But I'm sure many environments focused on video data collection would device QR codes.
Yeah, turns out a lot of companies don't really think about security, here's a DEF CON talk where they find stuff that chokes on it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIcbAMO6sxo