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<p>[QUOTE="calcol, post: 3114414, member: 77639"]If the goal of NGC in limiting speed of access to their verification database is to limit production of counterfeit slabs, it's probably futile. The bad guys can use scripting, proxy servers, and variable IP connections to mine the data. Requiring grade to be entered along with cert. no. will slow an automated system only a little because there are only 30 grades. Using proxy servers and variable IP connections will make it look like different folks are asking for verifications. Their programmers would be smart enough to have the bot dump its cookies and cache after each cycle.</p><p><br /></p><p>I'm not sure the bad guys would start the process with NGC anyway. With Heritage's database, type, mint, date, grade and grading service could input to a bot, and it could come up with matches. Use OCR on the slab images to get the cert. nos.; then go to NGC's website to verify them.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are much better ways to fight slab counterfeiting if the grading services would only step into the 21st century and use them. To see what I mean, look at your credit card, and I don't mean the brown stripe along one edge.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cal[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="calcol, post: 3114414, member: 77639"]If the goal of NGC in limiting speed of access to their verification database is to limit production of counterfeit slabs, it's probably futile. The bad guys can use scripting, proxy servers, and variable IP connections to mine the data. Requiring grade to be entered along with cert. no. will slow an automated system only a little because there are only 30 grades. Using proxy servers and variable IP connections will make it look like different folks are asking for verifications. Their programmers would be smart enough to have the bot dump its cookies and cache after each cycle. I'm not sure the bad guys would start the process with NGC anyway. With Heritage's database, type, mint, date, grade and grading service could input to a bot, and it could come up with matches. Use OCR on the slab images to get the cert. nos.; then go to NGC's website to verify them. There are much better ways to fight slab counterfeiting if the grading services would only step into the 21st century and use them. To see what I mean, look at your credit card, and I don't mean the brown stripe along one edge. Cal[/QUOTE]
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