RFID tags in (new) dollar bills?

[rman]

RFID tag = Radio Frequency Identification tag, as in the kind used to prevent shoplifting. Supposedly these are deactivated upon purchase, before you leave the store. My personal experience with these is that a 'deactivated' tag in a book i bought did set of the alarm in another store. So it looks like the 'deactivation' consists of making the alarm of the store of purchase not respond to the tag, but the tag does keep transmitting its unique ID. This makes it a very usefull tool for anyone who wants to play big brother.
Now it seems these tags are also in paper money.


found on slashdot, as reported on prisonplanet

http://slashdot.org/articles/04/03/02/0535225.shtml
"After repeatedly setting off RFID scanners in a truck stop, the author discovered the culprit was a wad of $20's in his back pocket. In a paranoid attempt to keep the government from tracking him, he attempted to fry the embedded chips in his microwave, with interesting results." Alex Jones has interesting theories about a number of things, but evidently a lot of readers were interested in this one.

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http://www.prisonplanet.com/022904rfidtagsexplode.html
RFID Tags in New US Notes Explode When You Try to Microwave Them
Adapted from a letter sent to Henry Makow Ph.D.

Want to share an event with you, that we experienced this evening.. Dave had over $1000 dollars in his back pocket (in his wallet). New twenties were the lion share of the bills in his wallet. We walked into a truck stop/travel plaza and they have those new electronic monitors that are supposed to say if you are stealing something. But through every monitor, Dave set it off. He did not have anything to purchase in his hands or pockets. After numerous times of setting off these monitors, a person approached Dave with a 'wand' to swipe why he was setting off the monitors.

Believe it or not, it was his 'wallet'. That is according to the minimum wage employees working at the truck stop! We then walked across the street to a store and purchased aluminum foil. We then wrapped our cash in foil and went thru the same monitors. No monitor went off.
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[PsychoDad]

1. Where in the dollar is the chip?

Might not the ink used in the color changing metallic number also cause havoc with a microwave?

[rman]

2. possibly yes

the slashdotters have a number of theories explaining this without rfid tags, and it seems the results of the 'experiment' are not repeatable.

[Atlant]

3. Dupe.

And here's what I wrote yesterday pooh-poohing this idea.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=1180575&mesg_id=1180893