Fake QR codes make for easy scams – be careful what you scan out there

QR codes are so familiar and widespread, we tend to trust them without question. That’s exactly what scammers rely on.
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LinkedIn is secretly scanning your browser for 6,000 extensions, and you weren’t told

LinkedIn runs a hidden JavaScript script called Spectroscopy that silently probes over 6,000 Chrome extensions and collects ...