OddCoping t1_j2b5nhg wrote on December 30, 2022 at 11:23 PM

Reply to comment by Sculptasquad in Researchers have developed a high-precision microscale 3D printing method that can produce new polarisation-encoded 3D anticounterfeiting labels by giuliomagnifico

It's never about the technology being out there, it's about how expensive it is to reproduce verses what your trying to forge.

Sculptasquad t1_j2cpxcr wrote on December 31, 2022 at 7:10 AM

And the cost of the safeguard rarely exceeds the cost of the product. This is why it is always economically viable to counterfit things.

If the materials and the technology required to make a knock-off is cheaper than the production cost of the genuine article, there will be fakes made.