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You'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."




RFID means those tags are writable... just figure it out and then clone it.


I 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.


As 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.




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