Why is it Difficult to Copy Money and IDs?

Counterfeiting has been around since time immemorial, but modern tech has made it more difficult than ever...

[MorbidFable]

I'm on some sorta watch list now, I guarantee it.

[VezeTech]

I used to be a banker but I lost INTEREST

[Midaspl]

Reffering to credit card forgery, I've read about a very interesting theft in Poland. Some thieves made a special small chip they put on actual chip in the credit card. It would behave as basic gateway bertween ATM and the card, but when asked about PIN code, it returned always positive response. So it occurs that the PIN is checked only on card (obvious), but the rest of the communication isn't blocked behind a PIN number (it is huge gap in security as it should forbid the actual transaction if it didn't record the PIN).

[FlawlessWorldAces]

Wait, chip credit cards are a new thing in NA? I've had a chip card for 10 years now

[NowAndyPlays]

Since when did chip and pin cards new ? 2005?

[chrisrdorria]

New fangled chip cards? We've had them in the UK for more than a decade...

[MrNateSPF]

$CAD smells like maple syrup for the same reason $USD smells like cocaine ;-)

[julienfoss]

lol all Canadian money smells like maple syrup if you get newer ones from like a bank.... at leastine does

[SasapessoS]

this video made me change my career decision.

[mr.litwinenko]

I would use comic sans on the 100$ bill

[willyscoiote]

Brazil currency paper money has holograms, two-and-half dimension painting, microscope printing, watermarks, security threads, if you stick together the two end sides of the same note together they combine, shine under UV and the size of the paper changes according to it's price. So I think forgery is more of an issue than I thought

[Axelsypkenssmit]

fun fact, scanners and photo editing programs like photoshop wil refuse to scan/open a file if it detects that it's money.

[MichaelSodapop]

It's funny how we've progressed in this area, but identity theft has become easier.

[joshua-sm]

Thanks for all of the information Linus, I guess I'm going to have to re-calibre my money printing machine once again!

[samuelcatlow]

probably the best sponsor transition you've done so far, smooth and perfectly worded. :D

[Dave_thenerd]

You should do an episode on Digital Certificates!

[aetheralmeowstic]

Honestly, the second you said that the US dollar uses proprietary government fonts, I thought of something: using only a gaming PC, an HD scanner, OCR software, AI Deep Learning, and a few dollar bills to scan, you could perfectly reverse engineer the fonts used on the US dollar, intentional flaws and all.

[bobbytables]

"Newfangled chip cards". Meanwhile we've been using them in Europe since the 1990s.

[dotjpgz]

The Ad transition was smooth af, well done Linus.

[FrankieHiltz]

I got a counterfeit bill once. Got it back as a 5$ from A&W (Canada), guess they didn't know they had it in their system :p But I went to buy something from the convenience store down the block, and they have this thing that scans bills to see if they're real. They took my 5, and put it on the scanner and the whole thing just turned from blue to purple instantly. When it was pulled out, all the ink just changed colour permanently :p The lady gave it back to me and asked for another, and told me to get rid of that 5 because it's fake. So I switched it for a real 5 from my foster mom :p