Do people still hand out physical business cards at events or is it all digital now?

i should have asked before ordering 50, lol

EDIT:

Thank you for all the replies, I’ve got the answer I need but I’ll add some more information just in case anyone wants to know.

  • I’m based in Europe and not Japan
  • I’m working as a videographer and trying to build a film company
  • I plan on doing more event coverage so I’ll bring them with to quickly hand out my contact details.
  • The card has the following: Busines name, my name, phone number, email, and website.
  • I had thought about adding my social media but couldn’t find a nice way to do it that matched the rest of the card.

EDIT 2: just now realised I didn’t complete the last sentence of the last bullet point

  • @Brkdncr
    4•6 months ago

    Our phishing training specifically says don’t scan random QR codes or nfc tags.

    • @[email protected]
      4•6 months ago

      Yeah but it’s not random. It’s a business card. Surely some trust in other people can be possible.

      • FuglyDuckEnglish
        4•6 months ago

        If you’re in a vaguely sensitive industry, there’s going to be a few people seeing what they can get into at those conferences.

        This is especially true of things like cyber security conferences, or tech. They’ll be crawling with corporate spies.

        Actually, I’d say any major trade or industry conference is going to have corporate spies and more… eh, freelance trying to see what they can get into.

        So the question becomes: have you/your company run a background check on that guy? No? Then why the hell do you trust him?

        • @[email protected]
          2•6 months ago

          Because he paid $10k for a booth to talk about bird safe window tinting, and can actually answer questions about bird safe window tinting. Dude wants to go through all that work into maybe fooling me into giving up my work login credentials, more power to him.

    • ThurstylarkEnglish
      3•6 months ago

      I mean, random NFC tags, I can understand. But, isn’t advising someone to avoid QR codes obsolete by now? It was a pretty worthwhile attack vector at one point, but nowadays most phones will ask “Do you want to <handle> <contents in full>?” before actually doing anything with it…

      Although, now that I think about it, it is best practice to advise to the lowest common denominator… Sometimes I overestimate users’ ability to avoid doing stupid things…

      • FuglyDuckEnglish
        3•6 months ago

        That process is safe until it’s not. There may be an exploit there waiting to be discovered. Thst exploit will never happen if you just don’t.