[Sandwich]

http://www.prisonplanet.com/022904rfidtagsexplode.html

What.... the... HECK!!!!?!?

[aldo_14]

Crikey.

[Carl]

poor jackson.

[Flipside]

First logical reason I've seen not to go to the Euro.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Flipside
First logical reason I've seen not to go to the Euro.

Imagine when the Daily Mail gets a hold of this....

"Evil foreign asylum seekers to destroy country with exploding euros and steal our women!"

[Stryke 9]

Old news. Anyway, it's kind of silly. Stick a piece of paper in a microwave and set the thing for long enough, it'll burn right in the middle, same deal.

[Bobboau]

the fact (if it's true) that it burned in the "exact same place on all of them" does seem some what odd, though I don't see how anyone would be able to use that to track me

[mikhael]

RFID chip, Bob. The denser something is, the better microwaves can vibrate (IE, heat) it. The RFID chip is denser than the surrounding paper and thus heats up and burns the paper (Really a cloth, but that's neither here nor there).

You can be tracked by an enabled RFID chip by passing through any RFID scanner, anywhere. You've seen them in use as inventory control gates at stores. An RFID chip can transmit its unique ID to the scanner. If a clerk gives you a $20 and someone knows the ID of that $20, then all they have to do is query the logs of any scanner anywhere to see where you went.

Such a monitoring and tracking may be a violation of the law in the city or state where you live.

[Bobboau]

but, how would they link that to me?

[aldo_14]

Well, if you got it from an ATM, that'd be one way.  Or using store cameras.  Or if you had to present ID (and it was logged), like buying bevvy.

Basically, they track the bill.  And then it's possible (maybe difficult, of course) to use that to track your activities.

[Knight Templar]

Big Brother at it's finest my friends.

[Bobboau]

wouldn't it just be easier to stick one of those chips in the back of my neck, maybe bribe my doctor, or just have some guy come up and smack me in the back of the head

[mikhael]

Why do that when you can just hand someone a $20? Who would ever suspect that the $20 could be used to track them? We give and recieve bills all the time.

The method of tracking breaks down as soon as you give away the $20 though, so its probably best to use a large number of RFIDed bills to track someone, then watch what the aggregate does.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Bobboau
wouldn't it just be easier to stick one of those chips in the back of my neck, maybe bribe my doctor, or just have some guy come up and smack me in the back of the head

Well, yeah.  But then everybody would know.  The aim of a big brother state is to make you think you have freedom, whilst slowly degrading it.  Then, when a suitable crisis arrives (or is manufactured), it completely ripped away - but because you're focused on surviving the crisis, you don't care.

[mikhael]

Originally posted by aldo_14


Well, yeah.  But then everybody would know.  The aim of a big brother state is to make you think you have freedom, whilst slowly degrading it.  Then, when a suitable crisis arrives (or is manufactured), it completely ripped away - but because you're focused on surviving the crisis, you don't care.

You know, that sounds awfully familiar... kinda like deja-vu... kinda like... nah. No one would do that!

[diamondgeezer]

'Course it sounds familiar. Plot of Episodes II and III, innit?

[mikhael]

I was referring to something that was more immediate and less fictional, DG.

[demon442]

Another bit of odd news, there will be newly 're-designed' US nickle going into circulation in the next few years.  I beleve we've found our tracking method.  New quarters, new $20's, new nickles?  A new $1 in the works?

Now, more than ever, taking a trip to one of the few sane countries is much more appealing.  How is Iceland this time of year?

[diamondgeezer]

Originally posted by mikhael
I was referring to something that was more immediate and less fictional, DG.

Er... I was refering to Star Wars. Where did you get 'fiction' from?

[Drew]

mik, dont turn every thread into a "lets debate US domestic and forighn (sp) policy thread"

u realize, a bill can be ripped soaked, burnt, crumpled faded etc. into oblivion and still be legal tender. So their just getting rid of the ID chip to make sure their privacy isnt threatened.

Our privacy is a right, the government shouldnt be tagging, or tracking law abiding citizens in any way. Hell, we shouldnt even be tracking law abiding visitors or immagrints.