Likely not. The yellow dots is part of a larger program, part of which involves code in image editing software to detect people trying to edit/print money. (Try to scan/edit/print a 100-dollar bill in Adobe and you will hit an error code.) GIMP was approached to add this code and politely declined. There was no massive fight. The authorities acknowledged that a black box of code could never function properly within an open source project.
For eyes on the larger international conspiracy of nations google the "Eurion Constellation", an anti-counterfeit structure found on the money of many nations.
For eyes on the larger international conspiracy of nations google the "Eurion Constellation", an anti-counterfeit structure found on the money of many nations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation