Don’t click that QR code!

Sometimes when we start seeing something nearly everywhere we go, we assume that “somebody” has checked it out and it’s therefore safe to use. Not so, at least in the case of those QR codes we’re seeing all over.

QR codes (short for quickresponse codes) are those little squares with black squiggles in them, machinereadable codes buried in the lines of the little box. The idea is that you hold your …