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.
Hey, give us a break. It takes time to get a grip on this hard power thing.
2 comments:
Yeah - I suspect they wanted to bug paper currency, but didn't have the budget.
What's funny is the issue with US currency high denominations being bugged. The plan was to put RFID tags in the paper to prevent counterfeiting, but it also means that you can easily build a scanner to detect people with lots of cash on them remotely. It would not be beyond the realm of possibility that you could actually track individual bills and therefore the people carrying them, which is alledgedly what these coins did.
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