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Mandatory Banknote Detection Code?
metamatic writes "The European Union is planning to introduce legislation to make it mandatory for software developers to add black-box banknote detection code to their graphics software.How will this apply to open source software? Is it time to get writing to your Euro-MP?"
next time on CSI: man rendered invisible to the magic zoom-in photo software by wearing suit made of dollar bills
-You're wasting your time. Alfador only likes me.
Yeah, it got cracked by using Illustrator to scan it in, or open an image, and import it into Photoshop. Quite ridiculous to spend time putting protection into one product, and not putting into its blood-brother.
got sig?
Dear European Union,
I am an open source software developer. Could you please send me samples of all EU notes, so that I can include image protection in my software. 10-20 copies of each should be enough to complete the work needed.
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I think the general consesus was that this won't do a thing to help stop counterfitting.
Not too surprising, since the general consensus on /. seems to be that nothing will ever do a thing to stop anything.
JP
Create an army of autonomous solar powered hyper-Roombas.
Have them with scamper about with a video grabber and the black box algorithm.
Set them loose to harvest money.
Seriously, it seems to me that the black box library would just be
as easily used as a dependable proof reader for money image duplicators,
and a much more easily targeted point of failure.
I tried to make one, but the damn graphic software wouldn't let me!
A pizza of radius z and thickness a has a volume of pi z z a
This isn't about counterfeiting, it's all about screwing the little guy.
The major sources of counterfeiting are other governments and large multinational crime organizations. They'll be able to get around this stuff.
Now that the little guy can make his own passable bills, they're all out to squash him down. Nothing new here.
I thought this was already taken care of with the price of ink cartridges?
sure you can print your own money. but there isn't a US currency denomination large enough for you to get a return on your investment.
bite my glorious golden ass.