{"id":7423,"date":"2015-06-25T07:44:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T07:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test946983.live-website.com\/?p=7423"},"modified":"2019-12-03T21:11:58","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T21:11:58","slug":"recommended-reading-the-secret-codes-of-british-banknotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=7423","title":{"rendered":"Recommended reading: The secret codes of British banknotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/omron-rings.jpg alt=omron-rings.jpg height=270 width=480><\/p>\n<p class='has-larger-font-size'>\n<div class=\"blog-entry-body\">The BBC has a very interesting article dated 25 June 2015 by Chris Baraniuk entitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/story\/20150624-the-secret-codes-of-british-banknotes\" target=\"self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The secret codes of British banknotes<\/a>,&#8221; which discusses the so-called EURion Constellation (aka Omron rings) patterns&#8217; role in deterring digital counterfeiting.<\/p>\n<p>Unmentioned in this article is that the simplest way to defeat this anti-counterfeiting feature is to use older scanners and photo editing software which do not interfere with the manipulation of banknote imagery. For example, Adobe Photoshop 3 will detect if you attempt to open a banknote image, but it will allow you to open, edit, and save same, but you can&#8217;t print. With Photoshop 4, you&#8217;re blocked from even viewing any image determined by the software to be a banknote.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of Anthony Rodov and Christof Zellweger.<\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC has a very interesting article dated 25 June 2015 by Chris Baraniuk entitled &#8220;The secret codes of British banknotes,&#8221; which discusses the so-called EURion Constellation (aka Omron rings) patterns&#8217; role in deterring digital counterfeiting. Unmentioned in this article is that the simplest way to defeat this anti-counterfeiting feature<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=7423\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,16],"tags":[145,27],"class_list":["entry","author-owen-linzmayer","post-7423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-europe","category-miscellaneous","tag-england","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7424,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7423\/revisions\/7424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}