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Originally Posted by arsenal
Wouldn't it make more sense to bug USD? Since most of the world uses that currency anyway. Mind you, getting RFID into small unmarked bills could be kind of hard...
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i disagree, it would be very very easy, assuming it goes in during the production of the bill.
it's not a lot of circuitry, the grain-of-rice size (going into people now as verichip) :
http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2004/Oct/1082567.htm
VeriChip is a subdermal RFID device that can be used in a variety of security, financial, emergency identification and other applications. About the size of a grain of rice, each VeriChip product contains a unique verification number that is captured by briefly passing a proprietary scanner over the VeriChip. The recommended location of the microchip is in the triceps area between the elbow and the shoulder of the right arm. The brief outpatient "chipping" procedure lasts just a few minutes and involves only local anesthetic followed by quick, painless insertion of the VeriChip. Once inserted just under the skin, the VeriChip is inconspicuous to the naked eye. A small amount of radio frequency energy passes from the scanner energizing the dormant VeriChip, which then emits a radio frequency signal transmitting the verification number.
is decades old technology essentially, it's not a brand new technology at all and besides maybe coils / capacitors there'd be nothing of real substance besides a potentially extremely flat fractal antenna.
what's new is the widespread implementation of RFID.
RFID 2 is a far safer technology from an identity theft perspective, it's a lot newer. as it stands i've worked with equipment that can easily grab the tag number and clone it onto a re-writable chip, which is what most RFID applications use.
EDIT: to clarify most RFID chips ouit there aren't re-writable but most of them can be cloned easily.