The Dead Link Disaster: When Two Hundred Campus Posters Stopped Working in a Fortnight
What happens when a free QR service expires the link on a printed poster, and how a static QR code maker keeps every code permanent, offline and untracked.
Type the network name and password once and get a QR code guests scan to join. Nobody has to read the password out, and nothing is sent anywhere.
What happens when a free QR service expires the link on a printed poster, and how a static QR code maker keeps every code permanent, offline and untracked.
WPA and WPA2, WPA3, WEP for old hardware, and open networks with no password. The encoding differs per type, and iOS and Android both understand all four, so the guest scan joins without choosing anything.
It is a password written in a form a phone can read, so treat the printed sheet like the password itself: show it, do not pin it up in public, and change the network password if the sheet goes missing. The whole operation runs inside your browser tab; the file is never uploaded, so nothing is stored or logged.
Yes. The payload is escaped correctly for names with spaces, ampersands and non Latin characters, which is what breaks most hand written WiFi QR codes.