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Then all the counterfeiters have to have is one valid serial number, and print it on all their products. The online lookup says it is real!
by PanMan 13y ago
Then all the counterfeiters have to have is one valid serial number, and print it on all their products. The online lookup says it is real!
- cantrevealname 13y agoIf we're talking about online lookup, then there's a simple countermeasure: if the system has already seen the same serial number 50 times, or it sees the serial number in Shanghai then fifteen minutes later in Frankfurt, or any number of other heuristics, it'll report that it's a fake. True, this might inconvenience the one legitimate customer who had that original serial number. Also, you need to make sure that the serial numbers are long and random-looking, so that they are not auto-generated.
- umsm 13y agoI don't know if this will inconvenience the one customer unless they bought it used. Someone with connections to the counterfeiters would have owned that valid product for some short period of time and probably kept it.
- bluedino 13y agoJust link it to some kind of database like the hard drive manufacturers do.