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RFID tags are now in $20 bills!

I don't know why these things surprise me, but they constantly do. The US has started putting RFID tags in EVERY SINGLE $20 made! The claim, of course, is not that it is for tracking money but instead to "foil conterfeiters". Bullshit. RFID tagging is a almost ubiquitous technology, and no serious criminal would have ANY problem coming up with any number of functional and non-functional solutions, so the idea that it would prevent anybody but a total dumbass trying to print $20 on an Epson Photo Stylus is a complete crock of shit. What brought all this to media attention is the fact that some people with large amounts of new $20 in their wallet started noticing they were setting off those theft detectors that are in most large stores, and then the judicious application of a microwave oven to nuke the tag confirmed the truth of it when the $20 burst into flames.

As with most science fiction, it would appear that George Orwell's "1984" was set a little too bit early to be realistic, but only by about 20 years.

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