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Canadian spy coins?

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U.S. warns about Canadian spy coins

By TED BRIDIS, Associated Press Writer


WASHINGTON - Money talks, but can it also follow your movements?

In a U.S. government warning high on the creepiness scale, the Defense Department cautioned its American contractors over what it described as a new espionage threat: Canadian coins with tiny radio frequency transmitters hidden inside.
The government said the mysterious coins were found planted on U.S. contractors with classified security clearances on at least three separate occasions between October 2005 and January 2006 as the contractors traveled through Canada.
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Are they still pissed about Team Canada burying coins in the ice at the Olympics and winning all of the gold medals in hockey?

:D
 
LashL said:
Are they still pissed about Team Canada burying coins in the ice at the Olympics and winning all of the gold medals in hockey?

:D
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We're NEVER going to get over that.

Seriously, though, what could they possibly hope to gain by this? For one thing, once you spend the coin the information it sends back is worthless, and for another most merchants in the US don't take Canadian coins. So you throw the coins in your change jar and forget about them. Doesn't seem like a very good method of gathering intellligence to me.
 
Not to mention if it is only a radio transmitter and not also a microphone, all it will give you is the location of the contractor. I rather doubt that's all that useful.
 
Rather odd.

It sounds like it's a passive RFID transmitter to be that small, but that leaves the range rather short, only a few meters.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RFID (Can't post links yet :boggled: )

I can't see any practical uses, in terms of spying, for something that short ranged.

Even assuming that the version on the coins is a classifed version with a longer range, the only use I can think of is to tail someone outside of their workplaces.
 
That's odd. RFID chips have a VERY short range, as in a few feet. I could see it being useful as a warning if, say, someone entered a room with classified information that they shouldn't see. But who's to say the coin didn't change hands? A video camera would be far better for that purpose.

Ah, Diazo beat me to it. Welcome to the forums, Diazo!
 
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Gravy said:
That's odd. RFID chips have a VERY short range, as in a few feet. I could see it being useful as a warning if, say, someone entered a room with classified information that they shouldn't see. But who's to say the coin didn't change hands? A video camera would be far better for that purpose.

Ah, Diazo beat me to it. Welcome to the forums, Diazo!
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oh you poor innocents.

You're never more than a few feet away from an NWO elf, you know.
 
This seems to me like someone is tracking the coins, not the people. Maybe some organization has reason to want to know how the currency flows and is tracking it the way naturalists track the movements of groups of animals.

edit: The fact that Americans with high-level security clearances got their hands on some could be sheer coincidence.
 
chipmunk stew said:
This seems to me like someone is tracking the coins, not the people. Maybe some organization has reason to want to know how the currency flows and is tracking it the way naturalists track the movements of groups of animals.
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Good. Our mind control is working. Keep thinking that.
 
uk_dave said:
oh you poor innocents.

You're never more than a few feet away from an NWO elf, you know.
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So why don't they just use the elves to track us? Seems a waste of money to waste good money that way :)
 
Gravy said:
That's odd. RFID chips have a VERY short range, as in a few feet.
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This is not true, the soviets bugged the american ambasitors office with such a device in 1946 that worked from across the street. It is all about the strength of the initial transmission.

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Damn Canadians. I knew they were up to no good.
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Ok.

Do. Not. Panic.


First, we have to weed out the undesirable element. This is hard, because Canadians can look just like regular people. That's how sneaky and subvervise they can be.

One tried and true method of uncovering a Canadian background: if they can explain the "icing rule," better shoot them, just to be safe.
 
NoZed Avenger said:
Ok.

Do. Not. Panic.


First, we have to weed out the undesirable element. This is hard, because Canadians can look just like regular people. That's how sneaky and subvervise they can be.

One tried and true method of uncovering a Canadian background: if they can explain the "icing rule," better shoot them, just to be safe.
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What works for me is if they can say "curling is a real sport" while keeping a straight face.
 
ponderingturtle said:
This is not true, the soviets bugged the american ambasitors office with such a device in 1946 that worked from across the street. It is all about the strength of the initial transmission.

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Interesting, especially since RFID technology did not exist in 1946.
 
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