Photoshop No Longer A Counterfeiting Tool?

Aw, shucks! You can’t scan $20 USD bills into Photoshop any more. Interesting.

Wired News: Copy No-No: Adobe and Uncle Sam

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.

When the coun­ter­feit deter­rence sys­tem detects an attempt to access a cur­ren­cy image, it aborts the oper­a­tion, dis­plays a warn­ing mes­sage and directs the user to a web­site with infor­ma­tion on inter­na­tion­al coun­ter­feit­ing laws. 

See also: Wired News: Currency Detector Easy to Defeat