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Originally Posted by Snapolit1
Doesn't sound like they done a damm thing actually to prevent people from doing this.
Has to be an existential threat to their super expensive box / chase card/ box break business model. I don't know much about CT machines but wouldn't you think there is some kind of packing that would sufficiently obscure the nature of the card so that efforts to smoke out what it is would be impossible or significantly more difficult? Like put a dummy card of some special construction on top. Or make all the chase cards redemption cards and make sure they are not the top card in the box?
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Even in the 1990s it was possible.
The place I worked did some stuff for a company selling ruck sized scanners to customs. X ray back scatter I think - it's been a while.
The boss went to visit them. and they showed him a picture of his briefcase.
The industry magazines were clearly identifiable by title. And every metal object was also clearly visible, including the springs inside the pens.
It was before a lot of foil stuff, but I would believe that 25+ year old tech could probably read at least the foil stamped serial numbers.
As the technologies to do stuff like that get cheaper, and they have gotten cheaper like all tech, I don't see how stopping them is possible within any reasonable cost and production.
When I was in school spectrographs were very expensive. 20 years ago or so I saw a hand held unit that when I checked was something like 50K. Now I think they're under 20K and some are under 10K.