Hey Bruce - did you forget it's illegal to alter currency?
It's no big deal, up until big brother decides to "wage a war on *insert some assine idea here*" and to wage that war, they think it's a good idea to make tampering with currency a felony with a 10 year minnimum sentence (per offence)(hell it may be worse than that now, I didn't bother to check).
So your $1600 (assuming 16 100's) nets you (at max) a 160 year stay in your local federal pen.
You go to the bank, get your cash, walk out (beep beep), your cash is logged with all your RFID tags, and now it's linked to you. You nuke it when you get home. RFID's are dead.
You drop $200 at Patty's show club. Ginger takes your two bills to the bank, the bank scans the money and gets nothing. RFID's are dead. Cross reference the serial numbers to the RFID numbers, cross the RFID numbers in the master d-base, to you.
Since big brother is "serious about currency tampering", you get a knock a month later, and the grand jury thinks there is enough evidence to proceed.
Oh, and if this is a big enough deal to big brother, then you get a secret trial. You, the procecution, the judge, and your lawyer are all under a gag order and cannot even discuss the existance of your trial.
This is all worst case (I hope), but it *can* happen.
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That could get too complicated to administer.
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Brian, that's just not true.
Echelon (Google)
The Straight Dope (The Straight Dope). Big brother either has, or can develop the technology. OK, I'll give you that it *could* get too complicated, but take a look at the track record.
*edit* added the straight dope link