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I wonder if the Keurig trick will work? You can spoof the official cups by taping an old foil onto the sensor.
by TehCorwiz 5y ago
I wonder if the Keurig trick will work? You can spoof the official cups by taping an old foil onto the sensor.
- _joel 5y agoYou'd expect there to be metadata including how many labels on the roll, so it might break after N uses. I'd imagine there would be other ways to spoof it but still, this is shoddy practice.| edit: Yes "Dymo touts the benefits of the chipped label paper in its sales literature, including auto-detection and remaining label counts."
- WrtCdEvrydy 5y agoRFID means those tags are writable... just figure it out and then clone it.
- userbinator 5y agoI wouldn't be surprised if they use crypto too. After all, RFID is also used for payment-card and other applications where security is necessary.
- jthrowsitaway 5y agoAs of now that increases the size, complexity, and cost of the implementation. A dumb RFID chip that returns an ID is a lot simpler and smaller package size than one that handles crypto.
- KennyBlanken 5y agoLikely not, as Keurig's coffemakers had to have something that would work for an offline device, with the added limitations of an embedded microcontroller. The RFID tag check is likely done by the driver running on the host system, where a semi or fully online database check are possible. Or they can just roll out a driver update for mysterious "compatibility and performance improvements" if they need to.