Basically everything inside the borders were far superior in quality to the borders themselves. Proof-positive that they were added post-hoc to a forged image.
So finding "well-known and well-defined white and gray pixel halos BETWEEN the letters" is a tell-tale sign of forgery? Correct?
150% correct. They are well-known and well-defined at the pixel level to me, and if you made a million scans of a real 2007 COLB, you would never find them.