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It was intended as a tracking mechanism against counterfeit currency.
by d2viant 16y ago
It was intended as a tracking mechanism against counterfeit currency.
- jamesbressi 16y agoIsn't that just a beautiful explanation for security measures? Kind of like suspending or limiting Miranda Rights because of terror.
- motters 16y agoThat's the explanation I've heard given in the past, although I don't know if it's the official one given. The East German Stasi also used to mark typewriters so that they could tell who wrote subversive articles.
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- thefool 16y agoBut this isn't govt mandatated right? Its just a printer manufactures internal policy as I understand it.
- there 16y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation is also recognized in many photo-editing software packages like photoshop. not government mandated, but i'm sure the software companies get leaned on to support it. http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=vnc6rm&s=5 http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=vnc6rm&s=5
- megablast 16y agoOn top of this, a number of applications, like Photoshop, will detect that you are trying to print out a US note, and will not allow it. This seems like a lot of effort to prevent the stupidest form of counterfeiting, and doing nothing against the real problem.
- hugh3 16y agoOn the other hand, if they didn't put in a lot of effort to prevent the stupidest form of counterfeiting, then the stupidest form of counterfeiting would be the real problem.
- Devilboy 16y agoI seriously doubt that this helps at all. If someone tried to print bank notes from Photoshop and fails, they'll just try some other graphics app. I'm pretty sure Gimp and many other apps will work just as well as Photoshop would have.