The average consumer is not capable of working with this. If they've
called you with help on using this, you didn't actually solve the problem.
We put a sticker with the credentials on the top of the router in plain
English.
On Tue, Dec 3, 2024 at 10:50 PM Ken Hohhof <khoh...@kwom.com> wrote:
> Are you pronouncing it “queer codes”?
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> *From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of *Steve Jones
> *Sent:* Tuesday, December 3, 2024 9:17 PM
> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] WiFi QR code labels - good idea or bad?
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> qr is how cambium app on the rv22 shares the info.
>
> us old people will probably never accept these young whippersnappers new
> fangled toys like QR codes and women's rights
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> On Tue, Dec 3, 2024, 6:06 PM Bill Prince <part15...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> If you were already printing a label with that information, I don't see it
> as any less secure than embedding the same information in a QR code.
> Probably slightly safer, since it would take a QR reader to interpret it.
> My QR-foo is even worse than my French.
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>
> bp
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> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
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> On 12/3/2024 3:08 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
>
> Remember ThioJoe? He popped up in my browser today showing people how to
> put their WiFi SSID and password in a QR code to attach to the router.
>
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>
> Is this a good or bad idea?
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>
>
> When we set up a leased router for a customer, we usually print a WiFi
> label with a Brother labelmaker and stick it on the back of the router. We
> have a desktop labelmaker at the office that can probably print QR codes,
> not sure we have one for the installers. But aside from that, is this a
> security risk of some sort? I guess a QR code is just a machine readable
> version of the text we’re already putting on the router. And since you can
> put other images and text on a QR code label, we could put the human
> readable version and even our logo there.
>
>
>
> Am I just being skeptical about this idea because it comes from a former
> YouTube troll?
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