--- begin forwarded text Status: U User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.1.2418 Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 09:08:39 +0100 Subject: Re: Japan making RFID-trackable cash From: "David G.W. Birch" <dgw-lists@birches.org> To: Digital Bearer Settlement <dbs@philodox.com> Cc: Bob Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com> On 31/7/03 3:41 am, Bill Stewart e-said:

Japan's starting to add RFIDs to their 10000-yen (~$100) bills. Notes will come with Hitachi's 0.3mm "mew-chip"

To protect against cat-burglars? Regards, Dave Birch. P.S. It's "Mu" chip, as in the Greek letter. -- -- My own opinion (I think) given solely in my capacity -- as an interested member of the general public. -- -- mail dgw(at)birches.org, web http://www.birches.org/dgwb --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'