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RFID Tags in Euro Banknotes

Posted by michael on from the mugger's-delight dept.

psychictv writes "CNET News.com is reporting that Euro notes could be embedded with RFID tags in the future. 'RFID (radio frequency identification) tags also have the ability of recording information such as details of the transactions the paper note has been involved in...'" The EU has been considering this for a while. You'll never even know they're there.

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  1. Nice. by grub · · Score: 3, Funny


    Now people in the EU will know who to sue when they get testicular cancer from all the Euros in their front pockets.

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    1. Re:Nice. by haedesch · · Score: 3, Funny

      don't discriminate against Marla Singer :-D

  2. Hey! I'm mugging you! by aug24 · · Score: 4, Funny

    According to this doo-hickey here, you've got money in your shoe too...

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  3. Great... by Waab · · Score: 4, Funny

    "RFID tags also have the ability of recording information such as details of the transactions the paper note has been involved in.

    Wonderful. Now how am I supposed to buy porn? Can't use credit card, it gets tracked. Can't use cash, it gets tracked. And with the price of porn these days, who's strong enough to haul around that much change?

    1. Re:Great... by Tackhead · · Score: 3, Funny
      > I guess it's just me, but I have no problem going into an Adults Only Video and renting a porn in broad daylight, or buying a porno mag off the magazine rack at my local store.

      I'm missing something here. What's this "store" thing of which you speak, and while I'm at it, why does money have to change hands for something as ubiquitous as pr0n?

      It just sounds like a more time-consuming and expensive way to solve a problem Al Gore solved 20 years ago by taking the initiative in inventing the Internet.

  4. Cool. by mikeophile · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now I can launder my money in the microwave oven.

  5. Some people don't take credit. by BoomerSooner · · Score: 4, Funny

    Strippers, hookers, drug dealers, public utilities, congress persons, ...

    See the connection?

  6. Re:New mugging tool by Feztaa · · Score: 3, Funny

    we can detect if employees are leaving with more money than they came to work with

    Isn't that the whole point of working? To go home with more money than you started with?

  7. You probably don't have to worry... by sczimme · · Score: 4, Funny


    If you buy that much pr0n, I bet you have at least one arm strong enough to carry the change.

    :-)

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