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Re:We see Project Pegasus, we must have Open Source Smartpho... by zimpenfish on Monday July 19, 2021 @06:33AM (#27880970)
>How many people can authenticate a dollar bill? [...] nobody can audit these things.

USGOV has a pretty comprehensive guide on how to validate them:

https://www.uscurrency.gov/sites/default/files/downloadable-...

Re:We see Project Pegasus, we must have Open Source Smartpho... by manquer on Monday July 19, 2021 @09:07AM (#27882223)
There is also plenty of documentation and books to learn coding and start auditing if you want to.

Fake validation is less like coding as to catch a really well made fake you would need years of experience seeing all sorts of fakes , while coding needs only experience to see what is good code to able to catch most issues

Re:We see Project Pegasus, we must have Open Source Smartpho... by zimpenfish on Monday July 19, 2021 @05:31PM (#27887486)
> coding needs only experience to see what is good code to able to catch most issues

If that were true, the software industry would have a much smaller problem re: bugs and errors than they currently do.

Re:We see Project Pegasus, we must have Open Source Smartpho... by manquer on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @01:13AM (#27890298)
Less bugs would be there if the industry wanted it and paid for it.

Sadly the problem is good enough is how the industry sees everything, constant cost cutting , off shoring or replacing senior talent with fresh graduates , inadequate focus on security, debt is all too common, unless/until something affects bottomline there is no pressure.

Re:We see Project Pegasus, we must have Open Source Smartpho... by stonogo on Monday July 19, 2021 @01:42PM (#27885279)
Please note the entire absence of the dollar bill from that document.
Re:We see Project Pegasus, we must have Open Source Smartpho... by zimpenfish on Monday July 19, 2021 @05:30PM (#27887472)
> Please note the entire absence of the dollar bill from that document.

A fair point. I took "dollar bill" to be the generic "US currency" rather than specifically "the $1 bill". But this page covers everything from $1 to $100 (although it seems the $1 and $2 have barely any.)

https://www.uscurrency.gov/denominations/