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Re: Where's the smart money?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Manning)
Mon Feb 11 17:44:45 2002
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 11:51:57 -0800
From: Bill Manning <bmanning@isi.edu>
To: "Trei, Peter" <ptrei@rsasecurity.com>
Cc: cryptography@wasabisystems.com,
"'Matt Crawford'" <crawdad@fnal.gov>,
"'Scott Guthery'" <SGuthery@mobile-mind.com>
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In-Reply-To: <F504A8CEE925D411AF4A00508B8BE90A01E90C2C@exna07.securitydynamics.com>
I had always thought that one of the key hallmarks of
money was its ability to retain value over a varitey of
hostile environments...
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 02:25:27PM -0500, Trei, Peter wrote:
> That's the scenario which is (semi) worrying. As
> the tagged bills wear, some fraction of the RFID
> transponders will inevitably fail. When this happens,
> is the bill declared invalid? Will merchants regularly
> check all incoming cash for a good tag? Is a bill
> with a bad tag presumed to be counterfeit? Can
> it be exchanged?
>
> Peter Trei
>
> > Scott Guthery[SMTP:SGuthery@mobile-mind.com] wrote:
> > No ink, no value.
> > No working chip, no value.
> > Gotta keep your bills out of the washer AND the dryer.
> > When they said laundry, they meant all the cycles.
> > Anybody remember mangles?
> > Cheers, Scott
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Trei, Peter [mailto:ptrei@rsasecurity.com]
> >
> > My first thought on hearing of this was:
> > 'Wil these survive a session in the microwave?"
> > (brings new meaning to the phrase 'hot money' :-)
> >
> > Peter Trei
> > > ----------
> > > From: Matt Crawford[SMTP:crawdad@fnal.gov]
> > > I predict a new EMP vandalism tool that fries the moneychip.
> > >
> > > And provides an alibi to passers of notes with no working chip.
> > >
> >
>
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