John Steck wrote; Not to promote insurgent behavior, but a well placed frequency 'bomb' could easily sanitize an entire section of Wal-Mart at one time. Essentially that's all that happens at the register when they swipe your purchase over the electromagnet... These devices are very sensitive to overload. I would be very surprised if clothing tags survive a single washer/drier cycle.
I have no interest in monkey wrenching any corporation's store. As for nuking currency, that's got to be against the law. In any case, I'd sooner spend them. OTOH, the nuking experiment that Prison Planet did, has demonstrated that while these chips might be quite resilient, I'd be surprised if either the washer or dryer destroyed them, an EMF over load is quite another matter. If I wanted to get to the bottom of this, I'd need a reader and a source of microwaves, just enough power to fry the chip, not enough to set the material that it is embeded in on fire.
