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New US $20 bills Released, Colors & Layout Change

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the when-piracy-really-matters dept.

JayBonci writes "CNN is running a story with the newest advances in the original copy-protection arms race, a new US $20 dollar bill. From the article, specifically color and different number arrangements as an improvement over 1996's "Big Face" dollar bills." Little off the norm for Slashdot, but it's interesting since computers have vastly simplified forgery.

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  1. Better pics by Kaeru+the+Frog · · Score: 5, Informative

    You can find some better pics here.

  2. Re:One change we won't likely see by antelopelovefan · · Score: 5, Informative

    I've talked about this problem with several blind people and most of them have a system (usually involving) folding the money in different ways so they know which bills they're dealing with. Several of these methods are described in the Int'l Organization for the Blind web page.