Comment by Mainan_Tagonist 8 months ago
After several tries, i managed to play it, sort of, on Brave on my Samsung S9.
Very impressive compression trick, as a proof of concept, it is worthy of praise, congrats.
I imagine this approach could be used for much more practical uses.
I was thinking yesterday whether it would have a potential application in the field of low resources communication : you produce a QR code containing your info that you transmit over SSTV so the other party can get the message. Supposedly much more efficient than FT8 or JS8Call.
Or much more malevolent as well. Just because something novel and fun/entertaining can be done does not mean assholes will not use the same techniques for their gain.
PoCs like this are neat and definitely shows some skillz by the author, but now I'm hoping security types take a look at this to see how vulnerable this could be from asshats.
It's already a good practice not to go around scanning random QR codes. Nobody has to go through the trouble of compressing a bunch of code to run in your browser when you can just make a QR code point to any malicious domain on the internet and infect devices all day long.
Thank you so much haha and yes! It indeed can, I always also like the idea of having QR code game cartridges of sorts haha
(PS I updated the hosted version again and it's much better for mobile controls, try it out if you get the time!)