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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gatzdon, post: 375421, member: 8247&quot;]Troodon, don&#039;t forget that this country likes to overstate the cost of doing/buying/making various stuff.</p><p><br /></p><p>The cost to DESIGN and build a working dry intaglio press is much different than the cost to build a duplicate dry intaglio press.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>All a small organization would need is a couple very good machinists and access to the very detailed and accurate plans for the dry intaglio press.&nbsp; At which point, the cost would be very low as you have no need for engineering, designers, engravers, etc....&nbsp; All you need to do is smuggle detailed electronic drawings.&nbsp; Heck, many modern CNC&#039;s can machine parts directly from the electronic drawings eliminating the need for machinists (but I&#039;ve yet to see such a feat work for complicated parts without the need for tweaking the CNC&#039;s scripts).</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the plates, again, all you need is access to the originals in the form of detailed electronic files or high quality photographs.&nbsp; We have people designing/building complete processors less than a ¼&quot; in size.&nbsp; Take out the designing/engraving step and realize that you are talking macro compared to cpu&#039;s, and engraving a plate using similar technology is well within the grasp of any decent MIT grad student to make a plate.&nbsp; Heck, maybe the reason the supernotes are of a higher quality is because their plates are duplicates of the original masters and don&#039;t include any of the anomolies introduced by the BEP&#039;s semi-automated duplicating processes used to make the hundreds of plates needed to keep up with volume.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Now, this doesn&#039;t have to be the CIA or any other covert government operation, but rather this could be any organization that has managed to either hack into or place a spy in the BEP and gain access to the electronic files.&nbsp; Could simply be the result of a corrupt official selling the files.&nbsp; Who knows.&nbsp; All I&#039;m saying is, don&#039;t confuse the cost of duplicating an existing technology with the cost of reverse engineering it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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