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Originally Posted by Fox
There's no inkjet out there, let alone a laserjet, that can reproduce anything remotely close to a bill.
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Not the point (especially considering your bills are printed on cloth-paper anyway which is hard enough to get your hands on unless you bleach 1 dollar bills and print 100 dollar bills on them instead..... now there's an idea!). The government wants this so they can track ransom notes and suchlike.
It's similar to when ransom notes were typed on typewriters - they could prove it came from a certain typrewriter because of inaccuracies in the individual letters, such as the e being printed slightly higher than the rest of the line. Imagine the technology coming out to completely standardise typrewriters so that they all printed perfectly identically to each other - you may have the right guy in custody, but you can't prove it came from his typewriter.
Admittedly it is paranoia, but it's paranoia based in historic fact, not completely unfounded paranoia.