The Dark Balloon

A weblog by Hao Lian.
A terrible secret guarded by golems.
A note that thanks you for being born, all those years ago.

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Technology Gone Wrong

It's being used to detect currency to prevent counterfeiting.[Wired]

  1. It's too easy to workaround.
  2. Even if it was harder, it'd still would be workaroundable.
  3. It's not worth the work to detect and prevent this.
[(2004 January 15) .]

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