alt Hacker NewsMaybe you should talk with image editor developers, copier/scanner manufacturers and governments about the safeguards they shall implement to prevent counterfeiting money.
Because, at the end of the day, counterfeiting money is already illegal.
...and we should not censor tools, and judge people, not the tools they use.
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miohtama • 12/09/2024
Gimp doesn't have the secret binary blob to "prevent counterfeiting" and there is no flood of forged money
https://www.reddit.com/r/GIMP/comments/3c7i55/does_gimp_have...
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mayukh • 12/09/2024
So guns are ok? How about bombs?
Interestingly, you must know that any printing equipment that is good enough to output realistic banknotes are regulated to embed a protection preventing this use case.
Even more interestingly, and maybe that could help understand that even in the most principled argument there should be a limit: molecular 3d printers able to reproduce proteins (yes, this is a thing) are regulated to recognise a design from a database of dangerous pathogens and refuse to print.