Pants Full of Unix

They're not random at all, as I had understood NPR to suggest when they were first released.

They're very specifically placed, as describes here with examples from Canadian money (note that he had no difficulty in scanning his sample images, btw), and now Photoshop will refuse to process this money. This already applies to British paper money as well.

This makes it painfully easy to create images that Photoshop can't open (wait for this “feature” to be in Internet Explorer, incidentally), means that artists wishing to manipulate societal imagery will be hampered, and won't stop real counterfeiters anyway, since they'll just use something else.

My tax dollars at work. Pigfuckers.

Unrelated: I used LJ's spellcheck on this post for the first time ever, since I wasn't sure about the e/i placement in “counterfeiters” and it was faster to check the box than think. Here are its suggestions for “pigfuckers”, which I find to be quite illustrative in that “dubbed for broadcast television” sort of way: