Is this "next Rembrandt" really "data for the soul" or a high-tech forgery? And what are the longer-term implications?
Advancements in color printers and copiers gave rise to currency counterfeiting a few years ago until the manufacturers devised ways like tracking dots to thwart and prosecute such crimes. Even now authorities concede it's a challenge.
According to Electronic Frontier Foundation technologist Seth Schoen, "the strategy of the government agencies that have worked on this technology - - both U.S. and foreign governments - - is mainly to keep it as quiet as possible and hope that as little information as possible gets out."
