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they did this with PS3 controllers and it just made it an inconvenience to charge your remote that any counterfeiters could bypass anyway like great so I can't
by permo-w 3y ago
they did this with PS3 controllers and it just made it an inconvenience to charge your remote that any counterfeiters could bypass anyway
like great so I can't charge from the wall unless I buy a sony-branded charger at a huge markup?
- JCharante 3y agoWell, it would be optional in my vision. Just a different icon to show authentic charging versus unverified charging.
- permo-w 3y agoyour vision is sounder then one true way to prevent counterfeiters from circumventing your verification would be to give each plug a unique code, then have the device send off to your manufacturer servers to check the unique code is valid, which the device then remembers. you'd also have to either permanently lock the plug to one device, or have some pretty invasive location data to ensure the codes were genuinely unique though. either way it requires network connectivity, servers, etc alternatively, you could have a long and complex call and response behaviour, perhaps dictated by a deterministic neural net. this would certainly be hard to counterfeit, but not impossible.