Parmigiano Reggiano makers embedding tiny trackers in rind to fight cheese fraud
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Re: Parmigiano Reggiano makers embedding tiny trackers in rind to fight cheese fraud
#2I found technical details about the device:
https://www.isenet.it/product/pharmaseq-products/
It's tiny (500 microns), passive, photocell-powered (you point a laser at it), and encapsulated in an inert SiO2 coating.
Re: Parmigiano Reggiano makers embedding tiny trackers in rind to fight cheese fraud
#3How is this considered food safe?
Chewing it will definitely break any casing on the device, right?
The other thing I'd like to point out is that these can be copied. They aren't like a yubikey which responds to a challenge with an internal asymmetric private key.
Re: Parmigiano Reggiano makers embedding tiny trackers in rind to fight cheese fraud
#4> The innovation combines food-safe Casein labels with the p-Chip micro transponder — a blockchain crypto-anchor that creates a digital 'twin' for physical items.
someone just burped out some buzzwords, didn't they?
Re: Parmigiano Reggiano makers embedding tiny trackers in rind to fight cheese fraud
#5How is this considered food safe? Chewing it will definitely break any casing on the device, right? The other thing I'd like to point out is that these can be copied. They aren't like a yubikey which responds to a challenge with an internal asymmetric private key.
Typically you don't eat the rind on this kind of cheese.
Re: Parmigiano Reggiano makers embedding tiny trackers in rind to fight cheese fraud
#6If you consume the piece of the rind which has the tracker in it and it gets stuck in some crevice in your bowels how long are you going to be trackable as a piece of Parma cheese?
How degradable are they?
Re: Parmigiano Reggiano makers embedding tiny trackers in rind to fight cheese fraud
#7> The innovation combines food-safe Casein labels with the p-Chip micro transponder — a blockchain crypto-anchor that creates a digital 'twin' for physical items. someone just burped out some buzzwords, didn't they?
ah yes, the "VC wake words" special
Re: Parmigiano Reggiano makers embedding tiny trackers in rind to fight cheese fraud
#8How is this considered food safe? Chewing it will definitely break any casing on the device, right? The other thing I'd like to point out is that these can be copied. They aren't like a yubikey which responds to a challenge with an internal asymmetric private key.
Typically you don't eat the rind on this kind of cheese.
try me!!
What if it gets fed to some pet or farm animal?
Re: Parmigiano Reggiano makers embedding tiny trackers in rind to fight cheese fraud
#9> The innovation combines food-safe Casein labels with the p-Chip micro transponder — a blockchain crypto-anchor that creates a digital 'twin' for physical items. someone just burped out some buzzwords, didn't they?
exactly where i stopped reading
Re: Parmigiano Reggiano makers embedding tiny trackers in rind to fight cheese fraud
#10> The innovation combines food-safe Casein labels with the p-Chip micro transponder — a blockchain crypto-anchor that creates a digital 'twin' for physical items. someone just burped out some buzzwords, didn't they?
Honestly, this is how every unnecessarily techy project is advertised in my area - which happens to be the same as Parmigiano - just because most readers are so little skilled, that they will take whatever contains those as innovative.
In the end, I guess the same happens in other countries, but hearing the cliché "blockchain"+"industry4.0"+"ai" buzzwords is sadly common especially when trying to attract public funding.