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Of course cappies would only use such an amazing technology to secure their wealth.

This could be useful not only for capitalists but also for security, for example for toys, food, helmets and similar products.

...until these manufacturing methods become available to crimin-oops, they already are...

If you're wondering just how much information they can (theoretically) pack into a label, they're putting 2048 bits in one 4 µm2 pixel. That's pretty dense.

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

i have so much anxiety about verifying my helmets

Buy them from somewhere with a trustworthy supply chain, even if you have to pay more.

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.