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		gruez on March 16, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ovid's myths of macOS: password entry dialogs and ... "It's an older code sir, but it checks out" It'll work at first, but eventually it'll be more and more suspicious as the older versions are removed from circulation. At some point it's going to attract so much suspicion that you might as well try faking the latest note.

sgerenser on March 16, 2024 [–]

Indeed. Nowadays I’d be suspicious of accepting a 1990s era $20 as the amount of legitimate ones in circulation is very small.

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