• Falling for the click

    Posted on February 21, 2022 at 02:42 CST by • Comment in the Forums

    ON SECURITY

    Susan Bradley

    By Susan Bradley

    After watching the technology-related advertisements from this year’s Super Bowl, my takeaway was that we are a gullible population that will absolutely and utterly click on anything without verification.

    For Super Bowl LVI, cryptocurrency companies were a major advertising presence. Coinbase ran an ad with a floating QR code moving around the screen. So many people scanned the QR code that Coinbase couldn’t handle the load, crashing the website and the app.

    Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 19.08.0 (2022-02-21).

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