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If there is no rest for the wicked, then I have been very evil these past two weeks indeed. But, I hope some of the findings are wickedly cool. This post is for the paper on new findings in security printing and imaging, and my co-authors are that talented trio of Guy Adams, Jason Aronoff and Margaret...
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Reconnaissance International's 5th Global Forum on Pharmaceutical Anti-Counterfeiting is being held in Miami 24-26 February 2010. Details on the event, including submitting a paper and information on the sponsors, is available at: http://www.regonline.co.uk/builder/site/default.aspx?EventID=751954...
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Continuing a reinterpretation of Robert Greene’s 1998 landmark, “The 48 Laws of Power”, I turn his Law #4 sideways (applying the law to the fighting of counterfeiting and other forms of fraud) and then turn it upside down (using the laws to create better businesses). Given the definition...
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07-22-2009
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Filed under: variable data printing, security printing, deterrents, anti-counterfeiting, security, brand protection, VDP, counterfeit, 48 Laws of Power, Robert Greene, Coriolanus, Marcel Duchamp, caloric restriction, Peter Sellers, Louis XIV
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The FDA is advocating the addition of chemicals to pharmaceuticals to improve the identification of counterfeits. http://www.in-pharmatechnologist.com/Industry-Drivers/FDA-advocates-food-pigments-and-flavours-to-combat-counterfeits/?c=JiBz%2FX6W897ybeGc6YCjow%3D%3D&utm_source=newsletter_daily&utm_medium...
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07-16-2009
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Filed under: security printing, deterrents, anti-counterfeiting, security, brand protection, pharmaceuticals, Pharma, FDA, counterfeit, Safety GS1, PCIDs, drug formulation
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In a continuing interpretation of Robert Greene’s 1998 bestseller, “The 48 Laws of Power” (Penguin Books), I turn it sideways (using the laws to fight counterfeiting and other forms of fraud) and then turn it upside down (using the laws to create better businesses). Today we address...
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06-16-2009
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Filed under: variable data printing, security printing, deterrents, anti-counterfeiting, security, brand protection, VDP, counterfeit, 48 Laws of Power, Robert Greene, Kissinger, Talleyrand, Fouché, Napoleon, Hamlet
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I'm in windy Winnipeg today and tomorrow for the "research & development conference & strategic workshop for agriculture and food traceability," as so noted at: http://www.umanitoba.ca/afs/trace/home.html . What does food traceability have to do with security printing and imaging...
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In 48 posts on this site, Robert Greene’s modern-day Machiavellian masterpiece on the principles of power, “The 48 Laws of Power” (1998, Penguin Books), is being turned sideways (using the laws to fight counterfeiting and other forms of fraud) and then upside down (using the laws to...
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Robert Greene’s eclectic masterpiece on the ethics—or lack thereof—of success, “The 48 Laws of Power”, serves as the stimulus for a set of 48 blogs to come on how to use these laws in fighting fraud (turning his rules sideways) and then using them to create better businesses...
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Security printing, RFID and related mechanisms to address counterfeiting and others supply chain fraud depend on the stick (investigation, evidence, prosecution) and the carrot (reward for compliance). The carrot is readily addressed through variable data printing. The stick must be wielded carefully...
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I've been invited to speak to the Princeton area ACM/IEEE Computer Society meeting on April 16. The full invitation: PRINCETON ACM / IEEE-CS CHAPTERS APRIL 2009 JOINT MEETING Security Printing and Imaging: Stopping Counterfeit Products Counterfeit products are a growing problem. Since counterfeiters...
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I have spent the last two days at the Brand Protection conference here at the Graphics of the Americas ( http://www.graphicsoftheamericas.com/conferences/bpc.html ). With the world's economy in a tailspin, there have been numerous discussions of how unemployed but creative people can find ways to...
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02-28-2009
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Filed under: Counterfeiting, security printing, anti-counterfeiting, security, brand protection, EBay, theft, fraud, safety, counterfeit, Graphics of the Americas, Craigslist, Brand Protection Graphics of the Americas, Yahoo, retail
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[Another whitepaper length summary of some related articles from this year's blog] PRACTICE Good Anti-Counterfeiting Techniques I have previously remarked that the approaches to counter counterfeiting depend on the relative mix of addressable and unaddressable counterfeiting occurring in the supply...
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12-30-2008
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Filed under: Counterfeiting, variable data printing, security printing, anti-counterfeiting, security, brand protection, brand name, VDP, security VDP, printing, security deterrent, anagram, Security Variable Data Printing, safety
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[Part one of whitepaper-length recap's from this year's blog] An Evolving Allegory As an allegory for security printing, I have borrowed the concept of pre-adaptation from evolutionary biology. In the next few blogs I will borrow much more extensively from the concepts and terms in evolutionary...
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12-30-2008
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Filed under: security printing, anti-counterfeiting, security, brand protection, VDP, forensics, SVDP, RFID, Pre-adaptation, Darwinism, Innate Moving Target, Security Variable Data Printing, Convergent Evolution, Punctuated Equilibrium, Evolution, Change, Co-evolution, Stephen Jay Gould, Gutenberg, Niles Eldridge, cladogram
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The final section of the security printing/evolution allegory is punctuated equilibrium. Punctuated equilibrium is an evolutionary biology hypothesis largely attributable to Niles Eldridge and Stephen Jay Gould in 1972. The theory states that species normally undergo relatively modest phenotypic change...
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11-29-2008
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Filed under: security printing, anti-counterfeiting, security, brand protection, VDP, forensics, SVDP, RFID, Pre-adaptation, Darwinism, Innate Moving Target, Security Variable Data Printing, Convergent Evolution, Punctuated Equilibrium, Evolution, Change, Co-evolution, Stephen Jay Gould, Gutenberg, Niles Eldridge, cladogram
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Survival of the fittest One of evolution’s tautologies is survival of the fittest. Whatever is best fit to survive, survives. Whatever survives is, by extension, fittest to survive. A lot like que será, será—whatever will be, will be. Sure, we get it—it’s a definition! However, this is a tautology only...
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11-05-2008
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Filed under: security printing, anti-counterfeiting, security, brand protection, VDP, forensics, SVDP, Pre-adaptation, Darwinism, Innate Moving Target, Security Variable Data Printing, Convergent Evolution, Punctuated Equilibrium, Evolution, Change, Co-evolution, Stephen Jay Gould, Social Darwinism, Complexity, Contingency