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What a silly headline. The actual quote is (emphasis mine) > Björn Eriksson, former head of Sweden’s national police and now head of Säkerhetsbranschen, a lobb
by mikkom 11y ago
What a silly headline. The actual quote is (emphasis mine)
> Björn Eriksson, former head of Sweden’s national police and now head of Säkerhetsbranschen, a lobbying group for the security industry, told The Local, “I’ve heard of people keeping cash in their microwaves because banks won’t accept it.”
- blixt 11y agoYeah, even if Swedes were hiding away their cash (which most people don't), they certainly wouldn't be hiding it in their microwave...
- guard-of-terra 11y agoThere is this bright idea of placing RFID chips into banknotes. If it is implemented, microwaves become logical choice to store cash in because they're practical Faraday cages.
- blixt 11y agoThe only viable RFID would be a passive chip, which would require the scanner to be in close proximity to the notes anyway, so putting them in a mattress would be equally efficient. You could probably build a superpowered scanner that would detect the location of these notes, but I would suspect there would be so much noise in a home that it wouldn't be too easy. From a practical standpoint, should people start "hiding" their notes in their microwaves, that would be the first place to look if you're a bad guy.