From: Remo Pini <rp@rpini.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 04:30:04 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Stuffs used for detection
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At 09:52 PM 7/12/96 +0800, you wrote:
>In our school library, there is a depository area wherein you deposit your
things and get the tag. Since the library doesn't allow those tags to be
brought out from the library, everytime you brought it out and pass by the
door, it will alarm. Does anyone know what stuff is that? How come it is
alarmed? I brought some metals but it wouldn't alarm... Why those tag would
alarm them???
>

Most of these systems are made of an oszillator (basically a few windings of
a wire with a capacitor:

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/      \
¦--¦¦--¦
\      /
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This acts like an ordinary RLC-Oszillator. When you put it in a electrical
field with the right frequency, it will effect the field strong enough to be
detectable.

So, if you shield it, you win.
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