that are anti-government, then it'll send an email to the FBI and you'll
have the men in suits banging on your door :P
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Angel Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 10:14 AM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Hidden code in Adobe prevents copying
> money.Microsoft said no hidden 'features' in Windows.
>
>
> HYPERLINK
> "http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,61877,00.html?tw=wn_
> tophead_5"
> http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,61877,00.html?tw=wn_t
> ophead_5
>
> "Adobe Systems acknowledged Friday it quietly added
> technology to the world's best-known graphics software at the
> request of government regulators and international bankers to
> prevent consumers from making copies of the world's major currencies.
>
> The unusual concession has angered scores of customers.
>
> ...
>
> A Microsoft spokesman, Jim Desler, said the technology was
> not built into versions of its dominant Windows operating system.
>
> ...
>
> "The average consumer is never going to encounter this in
> their daily use," Connor said. "It just didn't seem like
> something meaningful to communicate."
>
> Angry customers have flooded Adobe's Internet message boards
> with complaints about censorship and concerns over future
> restrictions on other types of images, such as copyrighted or
> adult material.
>
> "I don't believe this," said Stephen M. Burns, president of
> the Photoshop users group in San Diego. "This shocks me.
> Artists don't like to be limited in what they can do with
> their tools. Let the U.S. government or whoever is involved
> deal with this, but don't take the powers of the government
> and place them into a commercial software package."
>
> "
>
> Next step is to have the software automatically inform the
> FBI of a person's personal registration details if someone
> tries to alter a scan of a 100 dollar bill with Photoshop.
>
> Or better yet, to inform Homeland Security if someone draws
> anything resembling a bomb.
>
> -Gel
>
>
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