Re: Economic meltdowns in SF

William December Starr <wdstarr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>:
>  I don't recall that it was easily guessed.  Or even that "Wait a
>  minute -- *that's* your currency's security system???"[*1] was
>  easily guessed.

But that currency should have been very, very well analysed. Someone
should have noted that there was a pattern to "damage" on bills.

>  (What I always wondered about regarding that system was that, iirc,
>  currency _verifying_ machines were near-ubiquitous, but apparently
>  nobody ever took one apart and reverse-engineered the secret of
>  precisely what it verified.)

Magic tech tamperproofing. No comment.

/Par

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