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master-lincolntoday at 11:40 AM1 replyview on HN

How is the transport medium changing anything?

To me this is about having protocols that are suitable so not anybody can write to these labels without knowing a store secret or using replay attacks.


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mschuster91today at 12:06 PM

> How is the transport medium changing anything?

it's mostly about efficiency. IR based, an employee needs to physically walk around. RF based, place a transmitter or two in the building and the system now works fully automated.

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