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.
The U.S. report doesn't suggest who might be tracking American defense contractors or why. It also doesn't describe how the Pentagon discovered the ruse, how the transmitters might function or even which Canadian currency contained them.
Top suspects, according to outside experts: China, Russia or even France "” all said to actively run espionage operations inside Canada with enough sophistication to produce such technology.
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service said it knew nothing about the coins.
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service said it knew nothing about the coins.
Imagine that .
Y'all have been jealous of our high quality pocket lint for years , I'll bet those Toonies had little cameras in them too so y'all could drool over it ...
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well they've been working on technology that allows your Toonie to be traced in case you lose it...it only costs $999.99 + taxes + shipping...this new Toonie insert has a range and will call the user's/holder's cell phone to tell them they lost the Toonie....all call backs are $3.49...
Makes sense to me. Canada's more liberal diplomatically than the U.S., so there are plenty of our enemies hanging around. And sharing a wide open border, it's a great spot from which to surveilAmerica.
You might not learn much from tracking your average cleared defense worker, but if you watch a couple of them (or a couple hundred), you can start to establish patterns of activities and movement, which gives insight into whatever they happen to be working on. See where they go, how long they stay, who owns the property, what's known about operations, where do they go afterward, what do they do there, etc.
Kind of like how certain individual government documents might remain unclassified, but once you put them together into a cohesive context, they all become classified. Admiral Poindexter warned of that kind of thing a couple decades ago.
U.S. Warns About Canadian Spy Coins
