• gato@feddit.deEnglish
      3·
      11 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.caEnglish
        0·
        11 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
          1·
          11 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

          • Nyfure@kbin.social
            2·
            11 months ago

            To be fair, this is for retailers, not consumers.
            And ideally you can enter the serial-number on a website and know when it was produced and sold, this should be enough for you to know if its yours or not (or e.g. it was resold)

          • argh_another_username@lemmy.caEnglish
            1·
            11 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.

            • Primarily0617@kbin.social
              1·
              11 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

              • andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                1·
                11 months ago

                Make QR a link. Consumer access the website and sees aproximate information about previous scanners with some of items identified as warehouses and shops.

                That’s the route of cheese for you, and for them. Not ideal but can help you avoid doubles.

                Until forgers’ cheese sells first and you have false-negatives (:

                I find it hilarious that cheese wheels get defended more than money bills rather than having authorized resellers or something alike. I feel it’s more like DRM in a sense that making these chips is a business too, and someone found a customer in these scared cheesemakers.

              • SkyezOpen@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                11 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.