I feel like we have a thing for this… 
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Nope, nothing to do with animals at all. Just literally found the forum and am attempting to save potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars and a significant time sunk into something that isn’t what it’s been sold to be.
Just to confirm:
- I can scan an example tag, write the 15-digit number down
- Input that number into the Flipper (is there a specific way to do this or is it pre-programmed? I literally have no idea) and ask it to code it to the xEM you’ve linked?
What the heck is using fdx-b for non-animal uses? Like what uses a small glass injectable fdx-b transponder for anything other than an animal? Is this a business trying to sell a service or something based on this?
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Tonie boxes use slix2 chips for all their products. I’m assuming this is something similar
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Maybe. But, instead of just coming out with it this person with a generic username tried to delete all their posts and dip out. Someone else on this here very forum thinks they might be an animal trafficker. I restored the posts and suspended the user account to leave it as an example.
Generic username, very vague about the application, needed to make a perfect clone including form factor, rather than just be straightforward with information decided to dip out instead and delete all traces. Super sketch.
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Or a fraudster. Trying to pass off another animal as legit breeding stock with particular heritage.
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a lot of incredibly nefarious shit happens with chipped animals from pedigree fraud all the way down to theft of household pets.
it’s ticked up a lot on rfid chat rooms in the past 2 years, people wanting to know how to clone pet chips, re-write petchips, wirelessly destroy a pet chip etc.
this person claimed they were to be sold a product-/service that uses fdx-b glass tags to validate the legitimacy of an item. quality and/or exclusive goods brands use ntag4xx and Desfire for their CMAC functionality for this exact purpose. i bet 50$ this service provider of theirs does not exist. fdx isn’t secure, immutable or any such nonsense and there is no gap in the market to introduce a provable useless product such as this, and if it was for goods authenticity why the fuck are they using pill tags and not sew in/embed stickers
if you’re the one in charge of spending “thousands of dollars” for such an authenticity product partner and you manage to completely miss the multiple companies using secure tech and somehow land on a snakeoil fdx-b authenticity service, that’s on you.
TLDR, this was definitely nefarious.
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