The Anti-Counterfeiting Blog

We are living in crazy times where extreme views and opinions seem to be dominating the news and public opinion. This is happening because we are living in a world where the finical system we have depended on for so long is being called into question, whole industries are disappearing and extreme states of existence (poor and rich) seem to be getting more extreme before our eyes.

It is not surprising then that the authentication and anti-counterfeiting stage is also seeing very extreme opinions take route.

Member of Parliament Chidambaram Palaniappan of India has proposed a new law to make production, circulation or smuggling of counterfeit currency a terrorist activity in India. This is one of many attempts by the MP to classify actions that compromise economic security as terrorist threats.

Under the current draft of the law, no differentiation is made between the intended uses of the money. In other words, someone who intends to use the counterfeit money to finance bomb making and someone who intends to use the counterfeit money to finance a shopping spree at the mall are treated the same.

With the exception of documents that use holograms, most security documents that are protected with taggant technology have the taggants printed directly into the document. This means we at InkSure have worked with many security printers and have seen the good and the bad side of printing and security document production.