Treasury Goes High-Tech With Redesigned $100 Bills

Hugh Pickens writes "AP reports that as part of an effort to stay ahead of counterfeiters, the Department of the Treasury has designed a high-tech makeover of the $100 bill with a disappearing Liberty Bell in an inkwell and a bright blue security ribbon composed of thousands of tiny lenses that magnify objects in mysterious ways. The new blue security ribbon will give a 3-D effect to the micro-images that the thousands of lenses will be magnifying. Tilt the note back and forth and you will see tiny bells on the ribbon change to 100s as they move. Tilt the note side to side and the images will move up and down."

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Re:time for a change

[Anonymous Coward]

Nobody gets hurt, there's no violence involved.

This is the individualistic/cowboy mentality which allows people to do crime. Some people just don't care about the long-term social effects of their actions since they will never be directly responsible for them. People who never aspire to deal with society's problems will never think about them.

Counterfeiting reduces the trust people have in the money. [One instance of counterfeiting might have no effect, but if many people have that idea, then the small effects add up.]

Same goes for excessive speeding on roads, excessive use of drugs/alcohol/tobacco, certain kinds of fraud (e.g. tax fraud, since its "only the government") and so on.