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HP Discusses Anti-Counterfeiting Measures

Posted by michael on from the monopoly-money dept.

JohnA writes "While searching for drivers for an HP printer that was given to me, I noticed an article on the front page of hp.com that brags about how HP's R&D department was able to insert flaws into their products to 'deter' counterfeiting. I'm so glad we have HP looking out for us..."

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  1. Screws up circuit board prototyping by Tiroth · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If you are prototyping circuit boards, and probably if you are doing other kinds of offset-critical printing (graphic arts?), the behavior of purposefully mis-registering the printouts could be a real pain. In these situations, thousandths of an inch do matter.

  2. Re:pattern merging by GoofyBoy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    >It certainly isn't market demand that's motivating them.

    Heaven forbid that a company has a motive to do anything but market demand.

    Like ethics and corporate responsiblity.

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  3. Just how stupid are people? by blorg · · Score: 4, Interesting
    "Another challenge: Most people can't identify a counterfeit bill. Sang says federal officials showed him one-sided bills and even black and white bills that had been passed."

    Reminds me of when the Euro came out first, and there were incidents of 'forgers' passing Monopoly money, and pictures of the Euro that had been cut out of the newspaper.

    Looks like stupidity knows no nationality.

  4. Re:Stupid. Really stupid. by flogger · · Score: 5, Interesting

    OK, I'll bite.

    The Gov't is putting measures in the money. It takes time. Before teh new muti-colored 20's came out, there were identifier strips inside. One day when I got some cash from teh bank, I got some 50's. I noticed one of the fifties was odd and sure enough, the strip was for a 20 dollar bill.

    One of the easiest forms of counterfeiting is to just bleach ink out of hte money and reprint it for a higher denomination. HP color lasers make this easy.

    Gotta go...no time to spellcheck.

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  5. Re:pattern merging by Prince+Vegeta+SSJ4 · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Maybe/Maybe not just US government. I have a pretty fancy Lanier (Ricoh) Network Printer/Scanner/Fax. No not an all in one $500 job like they sell at compusa, were talking several thousand. Anyway, after reading the article on Adobe's algorithm which detects the pattern of circles, I scanned an older $20 on this and a 1$, they scan with YELLOW tint. There is obviously something in the scanner that protects against currency forgery.

    No I'm not trying to make money, just did an empirical test.

  6. why not make bills harder to counterfeit by bhny · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In Australia the notes are made from plastic with a transparent section.

    It's not something you could make with a scanner and a printer