QR Codes Kill People

[MrRING]

I know there was a book titled: QR Codes Kill Kittens: How to Alienate Customers, Dishearten Employees, and Drive Your Business into the Ground

But I hadn't heard of this twist before -apparently some folks are positing that they kill people - or so this person on Twitter believes this clips says.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1545844610668404737

Now, the lady in the clips actually says "QR killing" with a heavy accent, so she might be trying to imply something else other than QR codes are killing people. Does anybody know of any basis for this potential conspiracy theory?

 

[Mythopoeika]

By themselves, QR codes don't kill people. They're just a type of barcode. I've created a few myself for marketing brochures.

However, they could be used maliciously to send a mobile phone browser to a dodgy website that could inject a virus into the mobile phone's operating system. The phone's security could be compromised and then it could be used as a bot for hacking purposes. That hacking might do untold damage to a network infrastructure or some other system (power, gas, hospitals, for example). Deaths might be a possible consequence.