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Re: Verified by ....
From: Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 00:01:43 +0100 (BST)
On Mon, 4 Apr 2011 Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
On Mon, 04 Apr 2011 20:41:09 BST, Drsolly said:I just got a moneygram. There's this cute thing thats a pink stop sign, it's heat sensitive, if you touch it, it fades and the reappears. It tells you so on the moneygram, and it's true.It at least proves that if you're being scammed, somebody went to the effort of getting suitable paper with the heat-sensitive ink on it, and didn't print it off on their personal laser printer.
(Similar to any anti-counterfeiting stuff on paper money - stuff like watermarks and color-changing ink don't *prove* the bill is genuine, but it significantly raises the bar)
No, it doesn't. The channel delivering the info about the paper, is the same channel that's delivering the paper. It's *exactly* like a piece of paper that says "This piece of paper is genuine, here's a picture of an elephant, and that proves it" _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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