[LINK] Re: RFID in Govt, and in People

[Adam Todd]

At 11:17 AM 6/10/2006, Kim Holburn wrote:
>On 2006 Oct 05, at 5:38 PM, Geoff Ramadan wrote:
>>Kim Holburn wrote:
>>2) you will be most likely given the option to "kill" the RFID tag
>>when you make a retail purchase.
>
>Is it possible to find an RFID tag with a portable device?  Is it
>possible to "kill" an RFID tag with a portable device? ;-)  (Naughty
>question I know but I had to ask it!)

Of course it is!  When you buy something from a department store they wave 
the RFID over a device that disables it.

It is possible to go one better and overload the electronics and burn them 
out of course.  Just like any RF device, if you give it too much INPUT 
signal, it will overload and fail to work.