Hat Tip: Popular Photography
I actually find this to be a bit disturbing and file it under just another reason not to use Photoshop.
It turns out that Photoshop will refuse to load images of currency. That requires Photoshop to determine the subject matter of any image the user wants to edit with the program. Couple that with Adobe's Cloud Computer model, which requires an active Internet connection to Adobe's servers in order to use the program and you have a nightmare for any paranoid individual.
Not only can the program determine when you are attempting to open a file containing the image of a banknote, but the program is in constant communications with the software company that owns the software.
Anyone else wondering whether the NSA also knows when you attempt to open a file containing a banknote image? Or maybe the Government mandates Adobe turn over information whenever the program flags a file as containing a banknote image?
(We have examples of them forcing companies to turn over information.)
Why would anyone use a program that stops working if you lose Internet service and examines the content of the files you edit? Especially if it flags content as "illegal".
Big Brother is here.
Its name is Adobe.
FYI, it is actually legal to possess digital images of U.S. banknotes. It has to be for non-fraudulent purposes and the image needs to be black and white instead of color. There is also a size requirement, but that seems to apply more to anything that is actually printed.
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