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RFID Tags in New US Notes Explode When You Try to Microwave Them

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?
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.

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

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


there is a better way to rid your money of these 01.Mar.2004 12:02

RFID chips

you'll need a Tesla Coil...the same sort found at High School Science Fairs and used to be able
to get at Radio Shack for around $60 or so...then turn it up to high setting of 500,000v to be
discharged, and just place the subject bill about 6 inches away from the coil's bulb...anywhere
around top portion is OK...and it will quickly discharge a blue lightening-like bolt of energy to whatever RFID chip is in the money. The net result>>>RFID chip is now one sick chip, and is
INOPERATIVE! Don't burn your money up doing microwave-technology when Tesla-technology will do
far better job and is less messy!

Occam's razor 01.Mar.2004 13:43

Bison Boy

I think the authors have drawn incorrect conclusions from their observations.

Microwave ovens work by emitting radio waves (at 2.5 Ghz, the resonant frequency of water) in such a way that they produce standing waves in the oven chamber. Like any pattern of waves, there are places where intersecting waves cancel one another out, and other places where intersecting waves amplify one another. Where the amplification takes place, there is a "hot spot". This is why microwave ovens have carosels in them, and why most food needs to be stirred up to achieve even heating. These waves transfer their energy to moisture in food, heating it up. ( http://home.howstuffworks.com/microwave.htm)

So what happened here, I'm thinking, is that the bills sat across a hot spot, and eventually the hot spot got Jackson's eye to smoldering. As the authors said, this only happened when the money was "in a stack, not spread out on a carasoul."

I don't really need to know what happened in their case to find the truth, though. I can verify their results for myself, and so can you. (Science, ya know.) Try this little experiment:

Place a stack of ordinary paper in a microwave without a carosel, and apply power. What happens to the paper?

I strongly suspect that the paper eventually will begin to burn at just one or two places... at the microwave's hot spots. Anyone who cares to abuse their equipment can carry out this experiment, and see for themselves what happens. (And you don't even need a stack of twenties! Another experiment worth trying would be to put a stack of 50 new $1 bills in the microwave. Same kind of paper, but much cheaper. If it burns, try another stack in a different spot... did it burn in the same place? Try several bills spread out. Try them on a carosel.)

I don't happen to have a fat stack of twenties handy... but I do happen to have a single new $20 bill in my pocket, and a microwave oven here at work. (But I can't subject it to very much abuse.) I just nuked my $20 bill for 10 seconds on high. It's not only unburnt, it's unheated.

Try it for yourself. If you can't, just fall back on Occam's Razor... that principle of argument that the simpler an explanation, the more likely it is that it will be the correct one:

What's the simpler explanation here? Is the most resonable explanation for the burnt bills that the US Mint has managed to secretly develop and deploy a tag in our currency, that cannot be seen with eye or lens, and yet allows money to be tracked? Or is it that any stack of similar paper would have caught fire under similar conditions?

Must be nice 01.Mar.2004 13:54

Seatac Reader

Must be nice to blow a grand by burning it. I can think of a lot of other ways of getting rid of money, paying bills, buying groceries, helping a charity, etc...

Hoax Alert 01.Mar.2004 13:59

A. Jackson

Just microwaved me a pile of crisp 2004 twentie$, high setting, two miniutes per bill. (Water will boil in 1 minute at this setting.) Both the new salmon-colored bills, and the newer style twenties with the larger portraits (like the ones pictured in this report). Nothing. Nada. No bills burned around Jackson's right eye. Just warmed up my twenties a bit. File this one under "Bogus Urban Legends."

Save some electricity: don't bother trying this at home.

PS: Doesn't say much for the credibility of Alex Jones or What Really Happened dot com, now, does it? How hard is it to test this allegation before sounding-off?

There was a young man from Ft. Knox, who put his twenties in a microwave box... 01.Mar.2004 14:12

burma shave

bison boy: any thoughts on the merchandise security alarm and "hot" wallet response to the wand? Or on the aluminum foil faraday shield effect, given in the original article?

Who knows? 01.Mar.2004 15:36

Bison Boy

Burma Shave asks: "any thoughts on the merchandise security alarm and "hot" wallet response to the wand? Or on the aluminum foil faraday shield effect, given in the original article?"

The first thing that springs to mind is that the wallet itself may have had an active tag. Not RFID, most likely, but perhaps one of those more traditional little anti-shoplifting magnetic strips. He wrapped the money in the foil, then (presumably) put it back in his wallet. When he folded his wallet, the hypothetical anti-theft strip could have been covered by the foil around the cash. It wouldn't have been a faraday cage, quite, but it may have been close enough.

Of course, I wasn't there. I just pulled that explanation out of thin air, and I don't claim that it bears any resemblance to reality. Maybe he had an artificial hip, or was tagged by the Alpha Centauri Fish and Wildlife service. Who knows?

The truth could have been easily verified at the time by having the "minimum wage employee" run the wand over the stack of cash outside the wallet, and the wallet without the cash in it. It would have been easy and decisive, but the authors did not do it. Had the authors been slightly more curious (or considerably less paranoid) they could have verified the truth beyond a doubt. But that, I expect, wouldn't have made a very good story. :)

At any rate, there's no reason to take my word for it. Experiment for yourself. If the money supply is bugged, I'm sure we'd all like to know.

Shorter time the key here 01.Mar.2004 15:45

Luke from DC

The foil will certainly work, but microwaves do indeed destroy RFID tags. Since you don't want to BURN your items, just kill the tags, only a short pulse of microwave energy lasting a few seconds, if even that, is needed. Hot spots may have made the fires-or conductive parts of the RFID tags.

When the mircowaves hit, teh electronic parts of teh RFID fail almost instantly from the kiowatt or so of RF energy. It takes far longer for burning temperatures to be reached, so just ZAP your "chipped" goods, don't BAKE them!

A. Jackson sounds like a 01.Mar.2004 16:31

troll

with his feeble DEBUNKING! These new $20's do indeed have RFID chips in them, as the damned
government themselves told so about 4+ months ago when they introduced the things, and it's
easy to find them...you have to just LOOK at the money and you'll find them! When these so-
called "experts" come here giving "advice" that's counter to the TRUTH, you can be sure it's
a G-DEBUNKER on the troll. Pay 'em no mind, skip over their comments and get to the TRUTH!

Try your credit cards! 01.Mar.2004 16:58

Bird dog

They have chips in them.
A while back a money machine at my card for no reason.
Just a bit strange that they were more than willing to send me a new one.

After hearing about all the rfid chips I decided to put my card in the micro for about five seconds, it does not take long to fry electronics in a micro.
And I heard a big pop as the chip gave up the ghost.

Here are some links to information.
 link to www.altavista.com
 http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/169

Hitachi develops RFID chip for bank notes, documents.
 http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/09/02/HNhitachirfid_1.html
 http://www.hitachi.co.jp/Prod/mu-chip/
 http://www.nocards.org/AutoID/overview.shtml

NEVER GIVE UP THE FIGHT

The chip is smaller than a grain of rice. 01.Mar.2004 17:08

Bird dog

Hitachi develops RFID chip for bank notes, documents
Technology enables tracking of paper products



By Martyn Williams, IDG News Service September 02, 2003




Hitachi Ltd. has developed an RFID (radio frequency identification) chip that requires no external antenna and makes possible the embedding of tracking and identification chips in bank notes, tickets and other paper products.

ADVERTISEMENT




At present Hitachi's Myu chip, and many competing chips from other companies, require antennas through which data is received and transmitted to a chip reader and also power is drawn. In the case of the current generation Myu chip this antenna can be between five centimeters and seven centimeters long, said Keisaku Shibatani, a spokesman for Hitachi.

Even though the chips themselves are very small, at 0.4 millimeters square, the large antenna needed effectively limits their use in certain applications. The new Hitachi chip is the same size as the current model although requires no antenna. This means it is suitable for use in a range of applications including embedding in bank notes and documents, said Hitachi.

In May this year, a Japanese media report said Hitachi is talking with the European Central Bank on a project to embed euro bank notes with RFID chips. Shibatani, the Hitachi spokesman, said Tuesday that such a project is not underway at present.

The announcement Tuesday confirms that such a project will soon be technically feasible although several other potential hurdles remain, such as pricing the chips low enough to make it cost-effective and also combating growing consumer resistance to RFID.

The company announced one application for the new chip. It will be embedded into tickets for the Expo 2005 fair that will take place in Aichi prefecture in central Japan in 2005.

A production schedule for the chips has not yet been decided and neither has pricing, said Shibatani. The chip announced Tuesday operates in the Japanese RFID band, which is around 2.4GHz, he said.

First announced in 2001, Myu chips contain a 128-bit identification number that is burned into the chip at the time of manufacture meaning it is not possible to change the number once produced.





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What Freq? 01.Mar.2004 19:01

cable guy

Hey, does anyone know for certain what frequency these RFID transmitters are using? I read a while back (can't frickin' rember where) that many use the sub band around 11 MHz. However an earlier post mentioned 2.5 GHz. I have access to all kinds of RF meters and analyzers up to about 1.8 gig and would love to measure the amplitude one of these critters! However if it's for sure at 2.5 gig, I'm out of luck...

Also, did anyone copy the "other" article on Rense that mentioned something about RFID jammers? The link is 404'd now for sure.

Speaking of Rense...the website has just now reverted back in time to 9-20-2003. What the F%#&$ ???????

cable guy

Im' losin it... 01.Mar.2004 19:04

cable guy

I've completely lost it...Rense in now back in real time. I think I must been exposed to excessive RF to the brain after far too many years in the biz......

The chip is in you 01.Mar.2004 19:46

Andrew Jackson, now there's an asshole

Do all drug deals in one's! Spread the word.

Personally, I'd be more impressed .... 01.Mar.2004 21:14

xyzzy

Personally, I'd be more much impressed if someone took an X-RAY of a $20 bill that showed an obvious RFID chip and associated antenna.

Microwaves can make many things other than RFID chips burst into flames. Such as, for instance, inks that contain RF-absorbing metal molecules. And the inks on US currency do contain metals; it's one way bill acceptors in vending machines reognize valid currency. Note also that the portrait area of a bill is also the part that has the biggest concentration of ink.

Portland

another diversion 01.Mar.2004 22:42

uh

This is almost like a diversion to make people skeptical of RFID

Hoax Alert 02.Mar.2004 10:09

A. Jackson

Any of you alleging I'm a troll try your own experiments yet? Has anyone reproduced this phenomenon? If so, let's see your toasted bills. Any hi-resolution flatbed scanner should be able to pick up the alleged RFID in Jackson's right eye. How about producing a closeup to prove your point? Or are you as gullible as the sheeple who hang on Bush's every word...?

"Adapted from a letter sent to Henry Makow Ph.D." 02.Mar.2004 11:23

mother

Ahh, Henry Makow, known basher of womyn's movements. See:
 http://savethemales.ca/

what's 02.Mar.2004 14:01

woman bashing

got to do with "funny money"? maybe he is wrong on woman, but right on money? could be, so I
wouldn't just discard his thinking on money just cause his thinking on woman is a bit off, but
it's your money, so do as you see fit!

Microwaving things 02.Mar.2004 15:24

a

A little note on safety when microwaving. Always put a glass or cup of water in the microwave to absorb excess microwaves. Also, as a general rule of thumb, always stand a 5-6 feet away from your microwave when it's in operation.

Personally, I don't see why you'd need to microwave money until it burns to destroy any rfid devices that may or may not be present. Like the above commenter said, a few seconds will suffice. Honestly, I don't think there is an rfid device in andrew jacksons eye. I don't put much stock in Alex Jones either. To me, people like him just distract the general public from the truth about other 'less sensational' but more important things going on in the world.

If you want to have some fun with your microwave, take a glass of water and a compact disc that you'd like to destroy (AOL CD's) and put them in the microwave. Set the CD up so the reflective side is facing outward toward the window, for a fun lightshow. Microwave the CD on high for -- NO MORE THAN 3-4 SECONDS ( OTHERWISE BAD FUMES WILL DEVELOP ) --.

In any event, the CD will become enveloped in a field of electrical arcs and the CD will appear cracked as if lightning struck it. This won't damage your microwave and it's safe as long as you have the glass of water in there and don't burn the cd (CREATING NOXIOUS FUMES). The CD looks pretty cool after finishing.

There's plenty of information on microwaving CD's on the net if you think I'm nuts.
Turn your AOL CD into a trippy far-out coaster!
Turn your AOL CD into a trippy far-out coaster!