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NY Times article covers topics discussed here in July

My blogs of July 5 and 6 were concerned with how the price of oil may be the tipping point for a turn from unchecked outsourcing. The NY Times ran an article today covering the same topic. Shipping costs start to crimp globalization: http://www.nytimes...

Published 08-03-2008 7:46 PM by StevenSimske

Filed under: security printing, security, Supply Chain, Outsourcing, petroleum, oil price, Peak Oil, globalization, localization, NY Times, manufacturing
A Consideration of Processes

Recent blogs have focused on how deterrent technologies can be used to support the ecosystem required to provide strong brand protection and anti-counterfeiting. That ecosystem involves the PRACTICE mnemonic: P is for Plan, R is for Research, A is for...

Published 08-25-2008 6:53 AM by StevenSimske

Filed under: Counterfeiting, deterrents, investigate, anti-counterfeiting, security, brand protection, forensics, SVDP, image forensics
Are You Making It Too Easy for Counterfeiters? Then, Let Me SLAP You!

Acronyms and anagrams are excellent means to simplify a message and to provide easy recall of this message (thus, the word “mnemonic” [Greek origin]—assisting or intended to assist the memory). For example, in 3 rd Grade, I figured out that my last name...

Published 08-27-2008 3:22 PM by StevenSimske

Filed under: anti-counterfeiting, brand protection, VDP, Track and Trace, authentication, SVDP, image forensics, ecosystem, scalability, mnemonic, anagram, acronym, quality assessment
Ecosystem Score: Proving It’s Real vs. Proving It’s Fake?

In the previous blog, I talked about your Deterrent Score, and mentioned you must multiply it by your Ecosystem Score to get your overall effectiveness. As I mentioned in the May 12 blog, it takes PRACTICE to put such an ecosystem together. In today’s...

Published 08-17-2008 6:43 AM by StevenSimske

Filed under: security printing, deterrents, anti-counterfeiting, security, authentication, forensics, mass serialization, security deterrent, RFID, packaging
Categorical Imperative

Immanuel Kant addressed human morality and its position in nature and the universe with his categorical imperative. The formula of Universal Law states that one must act in such a manner that you can at the same time will it should become a universal...

Published 08-03-2008 5:04 AM by StevenSimske

Filed under: security printing, security, brand protection, VDP, Immanuel Kant, printing, forensics, SVDP, inspection
The Perfect Deterrent

How is Security Printing and Imaging like the Olympics? Apparently, the Olympics potentates have decided that no perfect 10's will be awarded in gymnastics. So, there will be the idea of perfection, but no actual perfection. The same is true for Security...

Published 08-08-2008 9:13 PM by StevenSimske

Filed under: security printing, deterrents, anti-counterfeiting, security, brand protection, Track and Trace, copy prevention, tamper-evidence, unique ID, mass serialization, Olympics

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NY Times article covers topics discussed here in July

A Consideration of Processes

Are You Making It Too Easy for Counterfeiters? Then, Let Me SLAP You!

Ecosystem Score: Proving It’s Real vs. Proving It’s Fake?

Categorical Imperative

The Perfect Deterrent