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You can shut down all sorts of things with the EICAR string encoded as a QR code.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EICAR_test_file

and this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIcbAMO6sxo where all the gates at a parking garage are rendered inoperable because someone scanned a QR code that encoded EICAR



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