Currency Detector Easy to Defeat

[Max]

Currency Detector Easy to Defeat


By Chris Ulbrich | Also by this reporter Page 1 of 2 next »

02:00 AM Jan. 14, 2004 PT

Anti-counterfeiting provisions in the latest version of Adobe Systems' flagship product have proven little more than a speed bump, but company representatives insist that including them was the right thing to do.

Adobe acknowledged last week that its Photoshop CS digital editing package includes a "counterfeit deterrence system" designed to prevent users from accessing images of currency....

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[Scott Pruett]

ya know, as much as I appreciate Adobe's intentions here, they should've said something before someone else discovered this. Photoshop is a program used heavily in my field, and for a $649 product, Adobe isn't terribly smart to be keeping secrets like this.... it can potentially arise questions like "what else?"

I'll still support them though.

p.s. this article is a little weak in its facts. CS provides a lot more than just a speed increase.

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There will be plenty of time to rest when I'm dead and gone, until then, 150% straight ahead....

[Max]

Originally posted by scott (jmu):

ya know, as much as I appreciate Adobe's intentions here, they should've said something before someone else discovered this. Photoshop is a program used heavily in my field, and for a $649 product, Adobe isn't terribly smart to be keeping secrets like this.... it can potentially arise questions like "what else?"

Wow,

I just got latest photoshop 8 & full PDF for 5$ from Ukraine....

Are you sure you not overpaying

Can burn you a copy....

[Scott Pruett]

$649 is the single-user license for PS. I boought the v.7 design collection at academic pricing & will soon upgrade to CS. I use PS professionally, & I hate to break it to ya Max, but $5 and/or a burned copy is illegal.

Besides, for me, it pays for itself quickly. My software piracy days of college have been over for a while.

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There will be plenty of time to rest when I'm dead and gone, until then, 150% straight ahead....

[Max]

Originally posted by scott (jmu):

I hate to break it to ya Max, but $5 and/or a burned copy is _illegal_.

Besides, for me, it pays for itself quickly. My software piracy days of college have been over for a while.

Thanks Scott!

Sure it is! But I'm poor like churh mouse!

I know, stealing is bad...

And I'm not using it proffesionaly

Please, don't report me Law abiding citizents of carecure!