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Is the UID of an NFC chip actually unique?


Reader - 11 Jan 2023
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The Unique ID of a tag is genuinely unique. Seritag only sell genuine chips from NXP and ST whose chips, which are unique. However fake chips maybe have duplicate UIDs
Seritag - 11 Jan 2023
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