North Korea's High-Tech Counterfeit $100 Bills 528
ESRB writes "North Korea is apparently able to produce high-quality counterfeits of U.S. dollars — specifically $100 and $50 bills. It's suspected that they possess similar printing technologies as the U.S. and buy ink from the same Swedish firm. 'Since the superdollars were first detected about a decade ago, the regime has been pocketing an estimated $15 to $25 million a year from them. (Other estimates are much higher — up to several hundred million dollars' worth.)' The article also advocates a move to all-digital payment/transfers by pointing out both forms are only representations of value and noting it would cripple criminal operations such as drug cartels, human traffickers, and so forth."
BitCoin (Score:5, Funny)
It's the only way to prevent counterfeit money.
Re:BitCoin (Score:5, Funny)
4 more years and the dollar is going to resemble Zimbabwean currency anyway... why invest time and effort into this.
We'll be counterfeiting the DPRK's won, and then burning it to keep warm like they do.
Re:First Copy (Score:4, Funny)
it's OK! it's just copyright infringement. (Score:5, Funny)
Just like copying movies and music: NK haven't stolen anything. The US still has all the dollars it ever has. It isn't like stealing a car where that deprives the original owner of the car. It's more like *duplicating* the car while the original owner still has it.
So it's OK, according to Slashdot.
Makes sense (Score:4, Funny)
Re:BitCoin (Score:4, Funny)
Re:BitCoin (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Math Pedantry (Score:5, Funny)
I wouldn't call it pedantry. I'd call it legitimately calling out the author for both having no apparent grasp of basic arithmetic, and likely being a moron.
I have it on good account that the article's author had been measured a Barbie Math Quotient of 73, as opposed to 100 for an average Barbie doll.
Use advertising! (Score:5, Funny)
Kim, don't copy that dollar! You wouldn't steal a movie, would you?
~Loyal
Re:OOH! SCARY STORY! (Score:5, Funny)
I would rather not have to carry a suitcase full of money through the airport.
Rich people with their problems.
Re:OOH! SCARY STORY! (Score:5, Funny)
In fact there are three freely convertible currencies in the Galaxy, but none of them count. The Altarian Dollar has recently collapsed, the Flainian Pobble Bead is only exchangeable for other Flainian Pobble Beads, and the Triganic Pu has its own very special problems. It exchange rate of eight Ningis to one Pu is simple enough, but since Ningi is a triangular rubber coin six thousand eight hundred miles along each side, no one has ever collected enough to own one Pu. Nigis are not negotiable currency, because Galactibanks refuse to deal in fiddling small change. From this basic premise it is very simple to prove that the Galactibanks are also the product of a deranged imagination.