[LINK] RFID Tags in New US Notes Explode When You Try to Mic rowave Them

[Chirgwin, Richard]

My bet says urban myth, made of other urban myths.

1) Do microwaves make silicon chips explode? Hardly. It can easily destroy
the junction, as can any excess of charge across a semiconductor. However,
the damage (while catastrophic) is generally on the microscopic scale.

Let's see. Say 6W of the microwave power is "visible" to the antenna ...
let's then say that the antenna is 10% efficient (hugely generous). 600mW
causes the chip to fail, possibly. Explode, I would want to see it with my
own eyes.

2) Suddenly an anti-theft device at the truckstop - which probably isn't
liked to anything much except the beeper - is "tracking by the government".
I'm starting to diagnose paranoid schizophrenia here...

RC

-----Original Message-----
From: Howard Lowndes
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Sent: 2/03/04 21:25
Subject: [LINK]  RFID Tags in New US Notes Explode When You Try to Microwave
Them

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

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. 

We could have left it at that, but we have also paid attention to the
European Union and the 'rfid' tracking devices placed in their money,
and the blatant bragging of Walmart and many corporations of using
'rfid' electronics on every marketable item by the year 2005. 

Dave and I have brainstormed the fact that most items can be
'microwaved' to fry the 'rfid' chip, thus elimination of tracking by our
government. 

So we chose to 'microwave' our cash, over $1000 in twenties in a stack,
not spread out on a carasoul. Do you know what exploded on American
money?? The right eye of Andrew Jackson on the new twenty, every bill
was uniform in it's burning... Isnt that interesting?

Now we have to take all of our bills to the bank and have them replaced,
cause they are now 'burnt'. 

We will now be wrapping all of our larger bills in foil on a regular
basis.

What we resent is the fact that the government or a corporation can
track our 'cash'. Credit purchases and check purchases have been tracked
for years, but cash was not traceble until now...

Dave and Denise
-- 
Howard.
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