Step 4: How to kill your RFID chip
In this step I will describe a few ways to permanently disable or kill an RFID chip. Most products that you own that contain RFID tags belong to you, so you have the right to destroy them; however, tampering with a US passport is a federal offense. Luckily there are ways to kill an RFID tag without leaving any evidence, so as long as you are careful, it would be pretty hard to prove that you did anything illegal.
-The easiest way to kill an RFID, and be sure that it is dead, is to throw it in the microwave for 5 seconds. Doing this will literally melt the chip and antenna making it impossible for the chip to ever be read again. Unfortunately this method has a certain fire risk associated with it. Killing an RFID chip this way will also leave visible evidence that it has been tampered with, making it an unsuitable method for killing the RFID tag in passports. Doing this to a credit card will probably also screw with the magnetic strip on the back making it un-swipeable.
-The second, slightly more convert and less damaging, way to kill an RFID tag is by piercing the chip with a knife or other sharp object. This can only be done if you know exactly where the chip is located within the tag. This method also leaves visible evidence of intentional damage done to the chip, so it is unsuitable for passports.
-The third method is cutting the antenna very close to the chip. By doing this the chip will have no way of receiving electricity, or transmitting its signal back to the reader. This technique also leaves minimal signs of damage, so it would probably not be a good idea to use this on a passport.
-The last (and most covert) method for destroying a RFID tag is to hit it with a hammer. Just pick up any ordinary hammer and give the chip a few swift hard whacks. This will destroy the chip, and leave no evidence that the tag has been tampered with. This method is suitable for destroying the tags in passports, because there will be no proof that you intentionally destroyed the chip.
-The easiest way to kill an RFID, and be sure that it is dead, is to throw it in the microwave for 5 seconds. Doing this will literally melt the chip and antenna making it impossible for the chip to ever be read again. Unfortunately this method has a certain fire risk associated with it. Killing an RFID chip this way will also leave visible evidence that it has been tampered with, making it an unsuitable method for killing the RFID tag in passports. Doing this to a credit card will probably also screw with the magnetic strip on the back making it un-swipeable.
-The second, slightly more convert and less damaging, way to kill an RFID tag is by piercing the chip with a knife or other sharp object. This can only be done if you know exactly where the chip is located within the tag. This method also leaves visible evidence of intentional damage done to the chip, so it is unsuitable for passports.
-The third method is cutting the antenna very close to the chip. By doing this the chip will have no way of receiving electricity, or transmitting its signal back to the reader. This technique also leaves minimal signs of damage, so it would probably not be a good idea to use this on a passport.
-The last (and most covert) method for destroying a RFID tag is to hit it with a hammer. Just pick up any ordinary hammer and give the chip a few swift hard whacks. This will destroy the chip, and leave no evidence that the tag has been tampered with. This method is suitable for destroying the tags in passports, because there will be no proof that you intentionally destroyed the chip.
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Your best move? Just hand it to whoever and smile. Don't mention it at all. Preemptive explanations are suspicious.
If asked, just say it just got burned, don't volenteer more. If pressed, you've got pleanty of options to choose:
A ciggarete.
A hot lighter.
Kid held it up to a candel.
Fell into the campfire.
A radiater.
A heater.
The stove.
I don't know. It wasn't burned when we left the states!
But if you're in trouble just say, "I'm a little paranoid, so I put it in the microwave to destroy the RFID chip. I didn't want someone to clone my ID with a portable scanner.", then shrug and give a weak smile
You will needs:
-Electromagnet
DO NOT TRY W/ PACEMAKER. BAD IDEA.
Lets see...
The electromagnet generates a magnetic field that become induced (like a transformer) into the RFID chip, frying it. Yum! Fried RFID...
or use a soldering iron to melt through the card, or very gradually until you reach about half way through the card.
or can't you use a RFID writer? i seen somethig on this site a while agot about that.
Remember that an EM Pulse is erroneously named. It is actually a Charged Particle Pulse. Those confused electrons and protons can overload the PN junctions in semiconductors and render them inoperative.
Alpha Radiation is made up of 'naked' Hydrogen and Helium Neuclei.
Beta Radiation is made up free-flowing electrons in search of a Nucleus.
BOTH of which are Charged Particles.
Read up on the reaction that occurs in the PN junctions of semi-conductors. If it were truly an EM pulse, then you would not be able to place a transistor anywhere near an inductor.
The fact that transistors can co-exist with inductors at ridiculously high frequencies in items such as switch mode power supplies demonstrates that the EM Pulse that can be generated by a collapsing inductor field is NOT ionizing radiation, although some of those frequencies, if too close to the resonance of an organic circuit, can lead to flesh damage, just as microwaves can do.
The classic "EM Pulse" that occurs in relation to fission detonation is the mass distribution of uncontrollable charged particles. The Wikipedia article on EMP is very informative even if the authors do not agree on particles vs magnetic fields. But pay close attention to the goings on inside the semi-conductor when exposed to this radiation.
Now let's turn our attention to the charged particle theory of EMP. Let's suppose that a fission weapon comprising 22Kg of plutonium is detonated 100 miles away ... in the atmosphere say. What is the particle flux density through one square centimeter perpendicular to the blast assuming a spherical blast, all of the fissile material participates and produces 10 (charged) fragments for each atom of fuel? How does this flux differ from normal cosmic ray flux at sea level? How does this flux differ from that normally experienced in SpaceLab?
As stated previously if it were purely magnetic fields that caused the damage then no transistor would survive in the vicinity of high-power inductors inside a switch mode power supply, unless that poor transistor is suddenly spiked by back voltage. I shan't introduce ElectroMotive Force, lest we end up with confusion over which acronym means what.
Are you reading this on a "classic" TFT LCD monitor lit with CCFL? As the thin-film-transistors on the LCD panel are so extremely delicate, have you or anyone else ever observed discoloration because the inverter coils (EMF) are affecting the TFTs?
RFID is several magnitudes more sensitive because it is powered by that field, overloading the antenna with EMF or the circuitry with CPP should be very easy. The firing of s Xenon tube scatters a great deal more than just visible light.
As you are only wishing to split hairs, I see no point in maintaining this argument which is verging on off-topic.
sOUNDS WORTH A TRY WHEN THE TIME COMES.
Photons (electromagnetic radiation) a.k.a. light is what is emitted, not charged particles. They excite the electrons in electronics to the point where they escape the metal and the metal becomes so hot from the rapidly moving electrons that it melts and burns whatever is touching it.
Nuclear decay , fusion, or fission produce nuclear radiation in the form of charged particles. Some is ionizing radiation. Our earths magnetic field deflects these coming from our sun making life possible. Some charged particles "fall into" the poles giving us aurora borealis and aurora australis. When the charged particles strike the gases in the atmosphere they excite them and they glow much as a neon light does.
The point to a EMP is to strategically knock out electronic devices minimizing casualties. otherwise just use an A Bomb you get both EMP and nuclear charged particle radiation.
My suggestion is relying on the "super-sensitivity" of RFID chips. They rely on an induced current to commence operation, so a good whack about the electronic antenna should be pretty painful.
The alternative of modifying a microwave oven to attack that part of the body infested with a chip is extreme, haphazard and could do long term damage.
If these chips are to be embedded in the back of the hand, I see chain-mesh gloves suddenly becoming fashionable.
Furthermore, Without a significant fluctuation in the surrounding MAGNETIC field an overload current will not be induced in the sensitive RFID chip. Simply hoping escaped electrons from a device designed to create visible light, I would bet my life, is not adequate to fry an RFID. Just think of the thousands of cells and layer of fat not to mention the capsule around the chip that can absorb or deflect the incoming electrons. We are talking billions of atoms in the way.
Please name the race that tagged you.
Please also provide Registration and Vehicle type, along with photos of the formerly implanted device.