If money is a number, not an object, then the need for security shifts from protecting that object to protecting access to that number.

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This leads to the fact that if a copy is correct, security systems based on object ID verification are not capable of distinguishing between the two.

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That's the object of the exercise -- that it is fully authorized by the United Nations Security Council resolution.

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But also taking into account the military aspect of it, we've -- the object eventually, obviously, is to train Afghan national -- an Afghan national security force, army, and police, in order to ultimately transfer control to someone.

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