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.
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.
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.
Inb4 downloading that tool becomes a felony
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation
I used to have a t-shirt with that pattern.
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.
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.
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