• PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
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    3 days ago

    Specifically, it mostly uses yellow in very faint dots imperceptible to the eye. I actually don’t know if it needs every color, or if it’s just yellow, or if it varies by printer.

    Scanners and printers will also detect a pattern of dots which indicates “this is money,” embedded in various clever ways in the design of the art of the money of most countries, and refuse to have anything to do with the images.

    You don’t own your devices anymore. And it will, steadily, get worse.

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      3 days ago

      Pffft, this is some conspiracy bs, there’s no way…

      googles it

      Oh shit… OH FUCK

      Though, to be clear, it seems like there are already tools available that you can use to print a bunch of tracking dots all over the page, essentially ‘hiding’ the real tracking dots and making them unusable, so it’s not impossible to get around. Still absolutely wild, and thanks very much for mentioning this, I learned something today.

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          3 days ago

          I knew about tracking dots and anti-copy features of currency, but I had no idea it was such a secretive thing. This is wild stuff.

          According to Wired.com, the banknote detection code in these applications, called the Counterfeit Deterrence System (CDS), was designed by the Central Bank Counterfeit Deterrence Group and supplied to companies such as Adobe as a binary module.[

          That’s so fucked man, imagine integrating some random binary module supplied by the world bank into your app and then keeping it completely secret. That’s surely not the only opaque binary that these companies just load in, god only know how many backdoors and other malicious shits have been stuffed into major retail software.