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U.S. Offers $50 Download
chill writes "CNN is reporting that the U.S. Government is offering low-quality images of its new $50 bill for artists, students and others who discover that their computers, scanners or printers won't allow them to view or copy pictures of the new currency, due to mostly-secret anti-counterfeiting measures built-in. This anti-copying technology has been discussed on Slashdot before. Now to go and test my new Epson scanner and printer to see if they're affected!"
Not sure if these are exactly what are being referred to, but here are pdf images of the $50 and $20:
$50 front
$50 back
$20 front
-dave
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Uhhh....those little yellow 20s are a major part of the digial anti-counterfeiting measures!
The pattern of the "0"s is something you'll see on Euros, Pounds and many other currencies. This allows software to easily recognize one pattern, at almost any angle, and not have to have separate code for each country's currency.
"It's simpler than you might think. All compliant notes bear a pattern of five tiny circles. On the Euro, the circles appear in a constellation of stars; on the British £20 note, they're disguised as musical notation. On the new $US20 note, the pattern is hidden in the zeros of a repeated background pattern of the number 20. Imaging software or devices detect the pattern and won't play ball."
Check it out at http://www.listener.co.nz/default,1412.sm
-Charles
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The PDFs:- face-web.pdf - back-web.pdf l ossies_white.pdf
http://www.moneyfactory.com/newmoney/files/Glossy
http://www.moneyfactory.com/newmoney/files/Glossy
http://www.moneyfactory.com/newmoney/files/Bill_g
I've just signed legislation that'll outlaw Russia forever. We'll begin bombing in five minutes.
Couterfiting occurs because people are careless, yes the technology helps prevent it somewhat, but after working as a cashier in my midteens I was amased to how my fellow coworks would get fake bills and accept it... some of them looked so fake it was unbelivable.... also when i worked as a cahsier i noticed that these pens ( our only tool we where told to use to prevent counterfits) could easily able to give the wrong results on conterfits by just simply coating the paper with a fake plastic not enough to really feel it because of this it never alowed the ink to change color idefenying counterfit...
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Here are the new Canadian 20$ bills.
the site has some info on the new security features on this bill- there are also new 100$ bills, the only thing missing is new $50 bills.
stupid 7-11 etc clerks that will except the copies.
Surely you meant to say "accept"? If they "except" such fake bills, then that's exactly what we want to see happen!
Not to nitpick or anything, I just found your typo rather amusing.
There are a series of 5 circles in a specific pattern... in the case of the new $50 it's the zeros in all the little "50"'s on the back.
Here's more info.
Indeed, as a Brit I can confirm that they are on all of our banknotes.
Here's some more info about it.
Opening up the PDF in xpdf for Linux causes the bill to be rendered and a few seconds later, the red colored "SPECIMEN" text is written ontop of the bill. It should be hard to remove this top layer, resulting in a government provided digital copy of a $50 bill. Lovely.
Didn't the government acidentally make this mistake with CIA documents that had people's names blacked out with a separate top layer, that was easily removed?
There is a "banknote patch" for Photoshop CS, which makes the protection useless.
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And it's proeminently visible in the $50 back picture of the new US bills.
The US Government has been testing holograms on paper money for years. Many other countries' currency have this feature, and it is good for stopping counterfits. But the US has not adopted it yet because they have not found any hologram robust enough for the standards of our paper money. We have much more stringent standards than other countries. You have to be able to dole out just about any kind of abuse and have the bill survive, and still be legible. No fading whatsoever is allowed. I assume that Holograms (as we know them today) cant stand up to that kind of abuse. But when they do, we will probably incorporate them in our bills as well.
If memory serves, another reason that we don't have a hologram yet is because of the immence amount of nostalgia that people have for their money over here. No one wants it to change very much, and putting a hologram on it would make many people angry. This is very silly, but it will probably be the last barrier between the currency and the holograms.
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normal holograms are trivial to copy. :)
do a contact copy - place the blank hologram on top of one you want to copy, and fire a laser at it
How do you know it is more robust? Have you used both currencies?
.. erm .. no.
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Why yes, I have. Aussie money I can go surfing with, diving, swim all day, enter the desert, no problems. Get back to the beach, buy my mates beer. Money is fully intact.
U.S. greenbacks, even the new ones
(Aussie dollars are plastic, though, so
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Yes. Go to Suprnova.org and search for the "banknote patch" torrent.
In the USA, we like stuff watered down, like beer, television, and freedom.
actually, yes. Yep, you can. Have fun. (only works on b/w copiers, tho.
Since when has this country used intellectual elite as a pejorative term?
Why didn't he just squirt water in the dollar bill slot? It has the added benefit of releasing all or most of the coins in the system.
I was in Romania in April and found that the Romanian 10,000, 50,000 and 100,000 lei notes all have the circle patterns as well. Like Aussie currency, the Romanian currency has a plastic, waxy feel to it and coolest of all incorporates little transparent plastic windows. I thought it was funny that such measures would be taken to prevent the counterfeiting of notes worth 30 cents US. Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary, and Turkey didn't have the circle patterns as I recall, only Romania.