02 Mar 2004
Do Your $20 Bills Explode In the Microwave?

Check this out: complete with photos.

I'm not too keen on the idea of RFID tags in general, but putting them in money would seem, on the surface, to be a logical anti-counterfiting measure. Until you consider that these new bills would probably defeat the purpose of other RFID tags used at retail to detect theft.

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.

(link) [Slashdot]

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