Digital Water Marks Thieves

[Matt Crawford]

On Feb 22, 2005, at 10:57, Dan Kaminsky wrote:

> The point is that the thief should think anything expensive is
> protected, by which I mean it's too traceable to fence.

That would be the thinking of a thief who read the article and took it 
at face value.  A more clever thief would realize that the magic water 
would respond to *his* ultraviolet light just as well as the police's.  
(And in today's climate, the counter-counteraction will be a measure to 
outlaw ultraviolet lights in the hands of private citizens ...)

   "Let's vary piracy / with a little burglary!"


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