It is getting scarier and scarier: the quality of fakes improves by leaps and bounds and spreads from one blade culture to another. This is not surprising: look what happens in the arts field. Major museums are regularly found to have fake Rembrandts, Rubenses and Picassos. A possibility of profit always attracts fakers, and this was true for as long as people started to collect things: even ancient Romans were known to make fake Greek sculptures .
We can try and defend ourselves, but the offense always wins....
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