LOXXYS FOXTAG: A CHRONICLE OF FAILURE
OR JUST STRAIGHT BULLSHITTERS
Imagine trying to invade the EAS market with a tag that supposedly can’t be opened by anything other than your proprietary, table-mounted detacher. You hire a marketing squad to shoot slick videos, launch flashy websites, and hype the unhackable...
Everything was smooth and sales were flowing, until the first tag was pinched by an operator and the "secret" was exposed. It wasn’t an INVENTION; it was garbage.
Sure, the tag looks fancy. The Biohazard styling is slick, three ink colors, a cluster of mysterious holes... typical marketing BULLSHIT. That was my verdict when some Australians first showed this to me years ago.
I thought, "Damn, maybe there are nano-locks and high-tech internals in there."
I waited two months for a shipment from Australia (where they first appeared). I tore the tag down and I was dying laughing. Once again, it proved that 99% of EAS manufacturers are just marketing frauds. They hype up their "tech" on their sites to scare the uninitiated.
This was a couple of years ago. I shot a few videos for my Australian clients showing how to open this junk effortlessly. I sent it to them, they made their own clips, and scattered them across social media.
The company’s collective ego absolutely detonated. They scrambled their employees to damage-control, claiming the videos were "fakes" and "impossible." They held on for another year before nuking the LOXXYS brand and all their websites into oblivion.
Go ahead, try to Google "LOXXYS" now.
They didn't surrender, though. They doubled down. They tweaked the shell slightly and... RENAMED THE WHOLE THING. Arrogant bastards.
Now it's !!! FOXTAG !!! They drew a little fox logo, made a new video, and went back to work:
https://www.vitag.com.au/products/foxtag-security-tag
We could have ignored them, but they’re so lazy and greedy they even use the same 6-pronged detachers for the new FOXTAG line that they used for LOXXYS. Lazy, fraudulent hacks.
Notice that FOXTAG has 4 slots arranged in a cross, while LOXXYS had 6 in a star pattern... yet look closely at the FOXTAG detacher—it still has 6 prongs!
Listen up, operators. If you still believe in the "elite" status of these security firms—as if they are some CIA-level technical lab—wake up. Most of them are bottom-feeders just looking for a quick payout from retail, ready to bail and rebrand the moment their "unbreakable" tech gets compromised.
What about the tag? In one corner, there’s a spring-loaded pin that reacts easily to even a tiny magnet. In one of the holes near the tag's protrusion, there's just a plastic latch that turns with almost any makeshift hook, as shown in my video.