• gato@feddit.de
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      7 months ago

      It’s very simple to just print the same QR on the cheese by just taking a picture of it. The barrier to counterfeit the cheese is considerably higher if the measure is harder to copy.

      • argh_another_username@lemmy.ca
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        7 months ago

        Not the same code. Just like serial numbers, a different QR code in every wheel that can be verified on a website, for example.

        • Primarily0617@kbin.social
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          7 months ago

          welcome to the future, where you have to make an account on our website and link your parmesan cheese wheel to it to be sure of its authenticity

          • argh_another_username@lemmy.ca
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            7 months ago

            An account is not needed to verify a QR code. Just take a look at what Brazil has done with QR codes. It’s everywhere and, in many places, it does exactly this, to verify the authenticity of a document, for example. I have e-signed documents and what goes on the paper is actually a QR code. It’s not difficult to imagine this being used to fight counterfeit goods.

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              7 months ago

              how do you stop me re-using the same QR code on multiple cheeses?

              you can encode the contents of a document in the QR code that you’re verifying to make sure it matches

              you can’t encode cheese into a QR code

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                7 months ago

                Make the qr code an NFT. Then you can’t copy paste it or else you’ll have crypto bros having fits in your dms.