Paying cash means you cannot be tracked? - think again!

[schmosef]

Originally posted by LvR
Note the word OUR - Not the single guy's cash in his wallet, but what both had once they got home...........

What does that have to do with the amount of bills in his back pocket?

The article states: "Dave had over $1000 dollars in his back pocket (in his wallet). New twenties were the lion share of the bills in his wallet."

All I'm saying is that it would be an uncomfortable amount of bills to be walking around with in my back pocket. To me, the situation sounds contrived.

[TransformX]

Israeli money has a little piece of a wire like tin foil going around the middle from top to bottom. AFAIK there's some metal in the USD ink so if you pack enough bills together strange stuff might happen.

[Helevitia]

somebody go stick a 20 in the microwave and nuke it. Tell us if it explodes

[schmosef]

This reminds me of something I saw on tv once, maybe it was the x-files. A guy pulled a wire out of a new 20 and said something about how the wire was detected at airports so the government could track how much money was leaving the country.

Anybody remember this?

[TransformX]

Israeli money has that wire + other tricks for years as a mean to avoid counterfeit money.
Never heard about anything electronicly 'detecting' it.

[schmosef]

It was fiction. On a show like the x-files. It wasn't presented as actual fact.

Just wondering if anybody remembers the show.

[Jon P. Inghram]

It was the hacker geeks on the X-Files, the ones who were in their own short lived show "The Lone Gunmen."

[az]

In the GDR, some money was being radiated so as to be able to track it on the border.

AZ

[GT98]

Well I think that its just about impossible to fit an RDIF tag onto a bill like that....also why do it since the avg life of a $20 is about a year or so and the cost of adding it wouldn't make it worth it. I'm willing to bet 20 bucks that the reason the money burnt up like that is due to the metal strip in it thats been there for years and having certain metal objects in a microwave is asking for trouble.

When I get a new $20 I'll recreate the experment to see if I can get it to burn a hole in it

[High_Jumbllama]

Like said above the ink has magnetic properties. The sensor mechanisms used are magnetic as well and do not have any kind of RF technology. The sensors triggered an alarm due to the concentration of new bills. There is no reason to think of this having anything to do with any kind of tracking tags.

[Helevitia]

saw this on HOCP this morning

Exploding Money = Fake:
[H]ard reader, Denny Church, pointed out this story yesterday about $20 bills blowing up in the microwave because of an alleged RFID tag in the bill. Well, Denny thought it sounded a little suspicious, so he tried it out himself…here’s what happened:


I tried this out this morning with a new $20.00 Series 2004 #EB121XXXXXX and it did not happen. I tried in the following times in the microwave: 30 Seconds, 60 Seconds, 5 Minutes. The only thing that happened is that the bill became more defined.

[Fluff]

It will all get too much when favours are RFID tagged

[Tjalfe]

The read range of RFID tags is tiny. Centimeters at best with the small tags. What are all these people worried about?
the tags that promise huge (10meter and thereabouts ) range, are Active tags with batteries in them. Try stuffing a battery in a $20 bill and see just how plausable that is.
With 5*5cm antennas hooked up to a passive RFID tag, a read range can hit maybe half a meter with a strong enough field reading them. And that only if the tag is in optimum position.

[Greebe]

Once you guys get a bit more knowledge under your belts about how this technology can be applied I think you all would be suprised.

Most of your comments are rather amusing

[Gurm]

Wow. You know, I've been really nice lately, but between your smarmy "I hope Infinium DOES sue HardOCP" posts, and this garbage...

Get a clue. Not everyone is out to get you. There are no RFID tags in money. I went, encouraged, by the HardOCP article, and nuked a new $20.

Guess what? No explosion.

Oh well. So much for your retarded conspiracy theories.

- Gurm