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Re:The Fake Factory That Pumped Out Real Money by tamana on Sunday July 17, 2016 @02:29PM (#12111154)
That's Jacquesm's point. Fraud is optimizing for metrics without regard for what the metrics correlate to.
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Re:The Fake Factory That Pumped Out Real Money by arjie on Sunday July 17, 2016 @02:42PM (#12111211)
But that's true for anything. Counterfeiting is optimizing for obtaining paper instead of the actual units of currency.

The verification process has to be completed and has equivalent cost either way.

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