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Do Your $20 Bills Explode In the Microwave?

msaulters writes "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." Alex Jones has interesting theories about a number of things, but evidently a lot of readers were interested in this one.

17 of 1,165 comments (clear)

  1. Who the fuckity fuck by dzym · · Score: -1, Troll
    Who the fuck carries around $1000+ in $20's (or otherwise) in a wallet?

    I mean, even big burly truck drivers might figure they might be robbed or maybe the wallet stolen/lost, right?

  2. The artical's main point by iplayfast · · Score: -1, Troll

    The article's main point isn't about burning money, or that money will pop in the Microwave. It is the fact that with rfid tags, the government can track money.

    (The land of the free?)

  3. B.S. by powera · · Score: 0, Troll

    The likelyhood of this being true is about as slim as SCO winning their "sue a Linux user tommorow case". If anybody had $20's they'd be willing to microwave until vaporized to prove there are no RFID's, we will all be grateful (and hate you for being rich enough to "burn" money").

  4. Re:I'm skeptical. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Please, your just another part of the repressive American government regime. All your facts and well thought out reasoning mean NOTHING.

  5. TOP SECRET FACT:Most modern cars have RFID!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    ==
    sorry for needed repost :
    This is a repost because FBI shills modded original to -1 immediately again (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=98942&thresho ld=-1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&cid=843794 9)

    ===

    TOP SECRET FACT:Most modern cars have tracking transponders!

    Forget the airport ati-smuggle money detector Rf angles on the maylar strip... there are worse REAL RFID tracking in place

    Spy transmission chips embedded in tires that can be read REMOTELY while driving.

    A secret initiative exists to track all funnel-points on interstates and US borders for car tire ID transponders (RFid chips embedded in the tire).

    Yup. My brother works on them.

    Your tires have a passive coil with 64 to 128 bit serial number emitter in them! (AIAG B-11 ADC v3.0) . A particular frequency energizes it enough so that a receiver can read its little ROM. A ROM which in essence is your GUID for your TIRE. Multiple tires do not confuse the readers. Its almost identical to all "FastPass" "SpeedPass" technologies you see on gasoline keychain dongles and commuter windshield sticker-chips. The US gov has secretly started using these chips to track people.

    Its kind of like FBI "Taggants" in fertilizer and "Taggants" in Gasoline and Bullets, and Blackpowder. But these car tire transponder Ids are meant to actively track and trace movement of your car.

    Taggant research papers :
    http://www.wws.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/byteserv.prl/ ~ota/disk3/1980/8017/801705.PDF
    (remove spaces in url from slashcode if needed)

    I am not making this up. Melt down a high end Firestone, or Bridgestone tire and go through the bits near the rim (sometimes at base of tread) and you will locate the transmitter (similar to 'grain of rice' pet ids and Mobile SpeedPass, but not as high tech as the tollbooth based units). Sokymat LOGI 160, and Sokymat LOGI 120 transponder buttons are just SOME of the transponders found in modern high end car tires. The AIAG B-11 Tire tracking standard is now implemented for all 3rd party transponder manufactures [covered below].

    It is for QA and to prevent fraud and "car theft", but the US Customs service uses it in Canada to detect people who swap license plates on cars when doing a transport of contraband on a mule vehicle that normally has not logged enough hours across the border. The customs service and FBI do not yet talk about this, and are starting using it soon.

    Photos of chips before molded into tires:

    http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:TAQIKjBI01g C: www.sokymat.com/sp/applications/tireid.html

    (slashdot ruins links, so you will have to remove the ASCII space it insertess usually into the url above to get to the shocking info and photos on the enbedded LOGI 160 chips that the us gov scans when you cross mexican and canadian borders.)

    You never heard of it either because nobody moderates on slashdot anymore and this is probably +0 still. It has also never appeared in print before and is very secret.

    Californias Fastpass is being upgraded to scan ALL responding car tires in future years upcoming. I-75 may get them next in rural funnel points in Ohio.

    http://www.tadiran-telematics.com/products6.html

    but the fact is... YOU PROBABLY ALREADY HAVE A RADIO TRANSPONDER not counting your digital cell phone which is routinely silently pulsed in CA bay area each rush hour morning unless turned off (consult Wired Magazine Expose article). Those data point pulses are used by NSA on occasions.

    The us FBI with NRO/NSA blessings, has requested us gov make this tire scanning information as secret as the information regarding all us inkjet printers sold in usa in the last 3 years using "yellow" GUID barcode under dark ink regions to serialize printouts to thwart counterfeiting of 20 dollar bills. (30 to 40 percent of ALL California counterfeiting is done using cheap Epson

  6. TOP SECRET FACT:Most modern cars NOW have RFID! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ==

    sorry for this needed repost :
    This is a repost because FBI shills modded my original to -1 immediately again (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=98942&thresho ld=-1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&cid=843794 9)

    ===

    TOP SECRET FACT:Most modern cars have tracking transponders!

    Forget the airport ati-smuggle money detector Rf angles on the maylar strip... there are worse REAL RFID tracking in place

    Spy transmission chips embedded in tires that can be read REMOTELY while driving.

    A secret initiative exists to track all funnel-points on interstates and US borders for car tire ID transponders (RFid chips embedded in the tire).

    Yup. My brother works on them.

    Your tires have a passive coil with 64 to 128 bit serial number emitter in them! (AIAG B-11 ADC v3.0) . A particular frequency energizes it enough so that a receiver can read its little ROM. A ROM which in essence is your GUID for your TIRE. Multiple tires do not confuse the readers. Its almost identical to all "FastPass" "SpeedPass" technologies you see on gasoline keychain dongles and commuter windshield sticker-chips. The US gov has secretly started using these chips to track people.

    Its kind of like FBI "Taggants" in fertilizer and "Taggants" in Gasoline and Bullets, and Blackpowder. But these car tire transponder Ids are meant to actively track and trace movement of your car.

    Taggant research papers :
    http://www.wws.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/byteserv.prl/ ~ota/disk3/1980/8017/801705.PDF
    (remove spaces in url from slashcode if needed)

    I am not making this up. Melt down a high end Firestone, or Bridgestone tire and go through the bits near the rim (sometimes at base of tread) and you will locate the transmitter (similar to 'grain of rice' pet ids and Mobile SpeedPass, but not as high tech as the tollbooth based units). Sokymat LOGI 160, and Sokymat LOGI 120 transponder buttons are just SOME of the transponders found in modern high end car tires. The AIAG B-11 Tire tracking standard is now implemented for all 3rd party transponder manufactures [covered below].

    It is for QA and to prevent fraud and "car theft", but the US Customs service uses it in Canada to detect people who swap license plates on cars when doing a transport of contraband on a mule vehicle that normally has not logged enough hours across the border. The customs service and FBI do not yet talk about this, and are starting using it soon.

    Photos of chips before molded into tires:

    http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:TAQIKjBI01g C: www.sokymat.com/sp/applications/tireid.html

    (slashdot ruins links, so you will have to remove the ASCII space it insertess usually into the url above to get to the shocking info and photos on the enbedded LOGI 160 chips that the us gov scans when you cross mexican and canadian borders.)

    You never heard of it either because nobody moderates on slashdot anymore and this is probably +0 still. It has also never appeared in print before and is very secret.

    Californias Fastpass is being upgraded to scan ALL responding car tires in future years upcoming. I-75 may get them next in rural funnel points in Ohio.

    http://www.tadiran-telematics.com/products6.html

    but the fact is... YOU PROBABLY ALREADY HAVE A RADIO TRANSPONDER not counting your digital cell phone which is routinely silently pulsed in CA bay area each rush hour morning unless turned off (consult Wired Magazine Expose article). Those data point pulses are used by NSA on occasions.

    The us FBI with NRO/NSA blessings, has requested us gov make this tire scanning information as secret as the information regarding all us inkjet printers sold in usa in the last 3 years using "yellow" GUID barcode under dark ink regions to serialize printouts to thwart counterfeiting of 20 dollar bills. (30 to 40 percent of ALL California counterfeiting is done usin

  7. TOP SECRET FACT: Forget money tracking : CAR RFID! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ==
    sorry for needed repost :
    This is a repost because FBI shills modded original to -1 immediately again (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=98942&thresho ld=-1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&cid=843794 9)

    ===

    TOP SECRET FACT:Most modern cars have tracking transponders!

    Forget the airport ati-smuggle money detector RF angles on the maylar strip... there are worse REAL RFID tracking in place. Money tracking is old news adn not one person here seems to understand the special angles of the metal on the mylar strip it seems, even though this is ancient news. But tracking your CAR now is possible on highway systems and other choke points and being done NOW by feds.

    Spy transmission chips embedded in tires that can be read REMOTELY while driving.

    A secret initiative exists to track all funnel-points on interstates and US borders for car tire ID transponders (RFid chips embedded in the tire).

    Yup. My brother works on them.

    Your tires have a passive coil with 64 to 128 bit serial number emitter in them! (AIAG B-11 ADC v3.0) . A particular frequency energizes it enough so that a receiver can read its little ROM. A ROM which in essence is your GUID for your TIRE. Multiple tires do not confuse the readers. Its almost identical to all "FastPass" "SpeedPass" technologies you see on gasoline keychain dongles and commuter windshield sticker-chips. The US gov has secretly started using these chips to track people.

    Its kind of like FBI "Taggants" in fertilizer and "Taggants" in Gasoline and Bullets, and Blackpowder. But these car tire transponder Ids are meant to actively track and trace movement of your car.

    Taggant research papers :
    http://www.wws.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/byteserv.prl/ ~ota/disk3/1980/8017/801705.PDF
    (remove spaces in url from slashcode if needed)

    I am not making this up. Melt down a high end Firestone, or Bridgestone tire and go through the bits near the rim (sometimes at base of tread) and you will locate the transmitter (similar to 'grain of rice' pet ids and Mobile SpeedPass, but not as high tech as the tollbooth based units). Sokymat LOGI 160, and Sokymat LOGI 120 transponder buttons are just SOME of the transponders found in modern high end car tires. The AIAG B-11 Tire tracking standard is now implemented for all 3rd party transponder manufactures [covered below].

    It is for QA and to prevent fraud and "car theft", but the US Customs service uses it in Canada to detect people who swap license plates on cars when doing a transport of contraband on a mule vehicle that normally has not logged enough hours across the border. The customs service and FBI do not yet talk about this, and are starting using it soon.

    Photos of chips before molded into tires:

    http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:TAQIKjBI01g C: www.sokymat.com/sp/applications/tireid.html

    (slashdot ruins links, so you will have to remove the ASCII space it insertess usually into the url above to get to the shocking info and photos on the enbedded LOGI 160 chips that the us gov scans when you cross mexican and canadian borders.)

    You never heard of it either because nobody moderates on slashdot anymore and this is probably +0 still. It has also never appeared in print before and is very secret.

    Californias Fastpass is being upgraded to scan ALL responding car tires in future years upcoming. I-75 may get them next in rural funnel points in Ohio.

    http://www.tadiran-telematics.com/products6.html

    but the fact is... YOU PROBABLY ALREADY HAVE A RADIO TRANSPONDER not counting your digital cell phone which is routinely silently pulsed in CA bay area each rush hour morning unless turned off (consult Wired Magazine Expose article). Those data point pulses are used by NSA on occasions.

    The us FBI with NRO/NSA blessings, has requested us gov make this tire scanning information as secret as t

  8. Re: Do Your $20 Bills Explode In the Microwave? by Crypto+Gnome · · Score: 0, Troll

    Slashdot was also spotted recently fielding an article entitled:

    Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedpost overnight?

    Does the spearmint lose its flavor
    On the bedpost over night?
    If you pull it out like rubber
    Will it snap right back and bite?
    If you paste it on the left side
    Will you find it on the right?
    Does the spearmint lose its flavor
    On the bedpost over night?

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  9. dumbasses by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    HERES AN IDEA
    the money was COunterfeit and thats why it had all that shit in it that exploded.

    Stupid communists cant Use the right ink and use molotov cocktail as a color enhancer
    SOunds feasible

    I mean think, truck stop 1000 in 20s
    HOW IS THAT NOT COUNTERFEIT

  10. TOP SECRET: $$!? Car tires have RFID in them NOW! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ==
    sorry for needed repost tonight:
    This is a repost because FBI shills modded original to -1 immediately again (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=98942&thresho ld=-1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&cid=843794 9)

    The second reprint was marked TROLL by feds tonight even though i do not car for remarks. Thus I cannot be a troll because I do not want anyone to reply. So I had to repost it AGAIN! (Is +0 too hard to ask from the feds?)

    ===

    TOP SECRET FACT:Most modern cars have tracking transponders!

    Forget the airport ati-smuggle money detector Rf angles on the maylar strip... there are worse REAL RFID tracking in place

    Spy transmission chips embedded in tires that can be read REMOTELY while driving.

    A secret initiative exists to track all funnel-points on interstates and US borders for car tire ID transponders (RFid chips embedded in the tire).

    Yup. My brother works on them.

    Your tires have a passive coil with 64 to 128 bit serial number emitter in them! (AIAG B-11 ADC v3.0) . A particular frequency energizes it enough so that a receiver can read its little ROM. A ROM which in essence is your GUID for your TIRE. Multiple tires do not confuse the readers. Its almost identical to all "FastPass" "SpeedPass" technologies you see on gasoline keychain dongles and commuter windshield sticker-chips. The US gov has secretly started using these chips to track people.

    Its kind of like FBI "Taggants" in fertilizer and "Taggants" in Gasoline and Bullets, and Blackpowder. But these car tire transponder Ids are meant to actively track and trace movement of your car.

    Taggant research papers :
    http://www.wws.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/byteserv.prl/ ~ota/disk3/1980/8017/801705.PDF
    (remove spaces in url from slashcode if needed)

    I am not making this up. Melt down a high end Firestone, or Bridgestone tire and go through the bits near the rim (sometimes at base of tread) and you will locate the transmitter (similar to 'grain of rice' pet ids and Mobile SpeedPass, but not as high tech as the tollbooth based units). Sokymat LOGI 160, and Sokymat LOGI 120 transponder buttons are just SOME of the transponders found in modern high end car tires. The AIAG B-11 Tire tracking standard is now implemented for all 3rd party transponder manufactures [covered below].

    It is for QA and to prevent fraud and "car theft", but the US Customs service uses it in Canada to detect people who swap license plates on cars when doing a transport of contraband on a mule vehicle that normally has not logged enough hours across the border. The customs service and FBI do not yet talk about this, and are starting using it soon.

    Photos of chips before molded into tires:

    http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:TAQIKjBI01g C: www.sokymat.com/sp/applications/tireid.html

    (slashdot ruins links, so you will have to remove the ASCII space it insertess usually into the url above to get to the shocking info and photos on the enbedded LOGI 160 chips that the us gov scans when you cross mexican and canadian borders.)

    You never heard of it either because nobody moderates on slashdot anymore and this is probably +0 still. It has also never appeared in print before and is very secret.

    Californias Fastpass is being upgraded to scan ALL responding car tires in future years upcoming. I-75 may get them next in rural funnel points in Ohio.

    http://www.tadiran-telematics.com/products6.html

    but the fact is... YOU PROBABLY ALREADY HAVE A RADIO TRANSPONDER not counting your digital cell phone which is routinely silently pulsed in CA bay area each rush hour morning unless turned off (consult Wired Magazine Expose article). Those data point pulses are used by NSA on occasions.

    The us FBI with NRO/NSA blessings, has requested us gov make this tire scanning information as secret as the information regarding all us inkjet printers sold in

  11. TOP SECRET: $? Your Car tires have RFID *NOW!* by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Your car tires have long range RFID in them NOW with GUIDs!

    ==
    sorry for needed repost :
    This is a repost because FBI shills modded original to -1 immediately again (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=98942&thresho ld=-1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&cid=843794 9)

    The second reprint was marked TROLL by feds tonight even though i do not car for remarks. Thus I cannot be a troll because I do not want anyone to reply. So I had to repost it AGAIN! (Is +0 too hard to ask from the feds?)

    ===

    TOP SECRET FACT:Most modern cars have tracking transponders!

    Forget the airport ati-smuggle money detector RF angles on the aluminum printed maylar strip... there are worse REAL RFID tracking in place

    Spy transmission chips embedded in tires that can be read REMOTELY while driving.

    A secret initiative exists to track all funnel-points on interstates and US borders for car tire ID transponders (RFid chips embedded in the tire).

    Yup. My brother works on them.

    Your tires have a passive coil with 64 to 128 bit serial number emitter in them! (AIAG B-11 ADC v3.0) . A particular frequency energizes it enough so that a receiver can read its little ROM. A ROM which in essence is your GUID for your TIRE. Multiple tires do not confuse the readers. Its almost identical to all "FastPass" "SpeedPass" technologies you see on gasoline keychain dongles and commuter windshield sticker-chips. The US gov has secretly started using these chips to track people.

    Its kind of like FBI "Taggants" in fertilizer and "Taggants" in Gasoline and Bullets, and Blackpowder. But these car tire transponder Ids are meant to actively track and trace movement of your car.

    Taggant research papers :
    http://www.wws.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/byteserv.prl/ ~ota/disk3/1980/8017/801705.PDF
    (remove spaces in url from slashcode if needed)

    I am not making this up. Melt down a high end Firestone, or Bridgestone tire and go through the bits near the rim (sometimes at base of tread) and you will locate the transmitter (similar to 'grain of rice' pet ids and Mobile SpeedPass, but not as high tech as the tollbooth based units). Sokymat LOGI 160, and Sokymat LOGI 120 transponder buttons are just SOME of the transponders found in modern high end car tires. The AIAG B-11 Tire tracking standard is now implemented for all 3rd party transponder manufactures [covered below].

    It is for QA and to prevent fraud and "car theft", but the US Customs service uses it in Canada to detect people who swap license plates on cars when doing a transport of contraband on a mule vehicle that normally has not logged enough hours across the border. The customs service and FBI do not yet talk about this, and are starting using it soon.

    Photos of chips before molded into tires:

    http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:TAQIKjBI01g C: www.sokymat.com/sp/applications/tireid.html

    (slashdot ruins links, so you will have to remove the ASCII space it insertess usually into the url above to get to the shocking info and photos on the enbedded LOGI 160 chips that the us gov scans when you cross mexican and canadian borders.)

    You never heard of it either because nobody moderates on slashdot anymore and this is probably +0 still. It has also never appeared in print before and is very secret.

    Californias Fastpass is being upgraded to scan ALL responding car tires in future years upcoming. I-75 may get them next in rural funnel points in Ohio.

    http://www.tadiran-telematics.com/products6.html

    but the fact is... YOU PROBABLY ALREADY HAVE A RADIO TRANSPONDER not counting your digital cell phone which is routinely silently pulsed in CA bay area each rush hour morning unless turned off (consult Wired Magazine Expose article). Those data point pulses are used by NSA on occasions.

    The us FBI with NRO/NSA blessings, has requested us gov make this

  12. THIS GUY is a +5 FBI liar ! alumminum on MYLAR !! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    THIS GUY is a +5 FBI liar ! alumminum on MYLAR strip on 20s and above!!

    Plus I piked up a bill with a strong neodynium magnet from the MAGNETIC INK alone!!!

    Two types of metal in bills. This guy is an asshole liar fed.

  13. Re:'Quotes' by Volmarias · · Score: -1, Troll

    Mod parent down for being painfully unfunny...

  14. Re:'Quotes' by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Mod parent down for thinking anyone gives a crap what he thinks...

  15. Re:They've gotten to my eggs too by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm not terrorably concerned with the goverment tracking the movement of money, they do allready.

    The way the government traditionally tracks money requires you to take the money out of your pocket. What concerns people is that embedding RFID chips in money allows the government and anyone else to track money hidden in your money belt as you walk through the airport, the mall, the football stadium, the street, etc. It allows the government to know where you went after leaving the bank and allows thiefs to know who is a good target.

  16. My god! by Mr.Coffee · · Score: 0, Troll

    That's amazing! paper burns when you put it in the microwave? quick, call nasa! this could revolutionize the space race! oh wait...

    --
    Cogito Eggo Sum, I think therefore I'm a waffle
  17. Re:They've gotten to my eggs too by Mr.+Piddle · · Score: -1, Troll


    Drug dealers aren't the criminals, the legislators that pass draconian drug laws are. Drug laws are the Democrats' way of oppressing the poor that vote for them. Ironic? No, of course not. Just keep on voting for the Republican and Democratic oligarchy and live happy in your little prison cells.

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