Spy transmitters hidden in Canadian coins?

[Powder_Blue]

When is the Canadian Mint making their 2007 limited edition spy transmittor coin collection available?

[St_Ides]

@LionelHutz405

Well, that is silly.
It’s already easy to track who goes where via the passcard that must be scanned to get through security doors. It makes no sense at all to go to all the trouble and expense to embed a RFID into a coin and place scanners all over the place to accomplish the same thing.

Not if you’re looking for a security leak.

If people are going where they’re not allowed, they’re not going to be using their (own) passcard. The coin’s a stealthy way to do it. If the suspected leak knows how to circumvent all the other security protocols, a secret method such as this may be necessary.

If you had the materials beforehand, and were already using a whole bunch of RFID scanners, all you’d need is a few coins and access to a machine shop. Seems like a pretty cheap way to do it with me.

[Spoons]

@Powder Blue

When is the Canadian Mint making their 2007 limited edition spy transmittor coin collection available?

Any time now. Watch the change you get from Tim Horton’s.

I can just see it: “The subject, who has shown a marked preference for large double-doubles and maple-glazed donuts, entered the facility at…”

[Harmonious_Discord]

Just be sure to give them a wash with your pocket pen particle accelerator before you pocket the change.

[Sunspace]

Update:

The US has retracted its claims of spy transmitters hidden in Canadian coins.

However:

Hollowed-out coins have long been used in the intelligence world to conceal messages and microfilm.

But the prospect of embedding a transmitter in a coin struck some as technologically far-fetched and rather dubious in that the holder might promptly spend the device, ending the surveillance operation.

Interesting.

[Muffin]

Fucking Bolivians.

[CalMeacham]

Another story about the US retracting the claim about spy devices in Canadian coins:

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070118/spycoins_070118/20070118

[clayton_e]

The hollow dollar coin reminded me of the U.S. spy dollar coins that have the little cyanide pill in them. (Why the hell can’t I find a link to anything that I’m looking for today…)

[DSYoungEsq]

Here is a link to a story today in USA Today stating that the mysterious quarters were actually Canadian Poppy Quarters.

As suspected, this was all bogus crap, and someone ran with it when they should have walked straight to the trash can.

[CalMeacham]

Here’s a link to Yahoo, with a picture of the coin:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070507/ap_on_go_ot/spy_coins

Until I saw DSYoung’s post I had no idea that this is the thing we discussed earlier (and justifies, I think, this zombie thread).
I cannot believe that this confused people in our government – doesn’t anybody talk to folks in Canada? Or at the Smithsonian’s numismatics bunch?

[Sunspace]

See? They were getting them at Tim Horton’s!

(Tim Horton’s distributed the poppy coins in 2004.)

[Cervaise]

@CalMeacham

I cannot believe that this confused people in our government

Apparently Pat Robertson supplies our government with graduates from his espionage academy as well as from his law school.

[Terrifel]

Secret agent man
Secret agent man
Odds are he won’t have change for a dollar…

[Kythereia]

Tim Horton’s is Canada’s version of Starbucks–you just know they’re a front to take over the world…

[Ike_Witt]

I could have sworn that I had read something about the large number of Chinese spies in Canada. I am sure that these 2 stories are related.

[vibrotronica]

@CalMeacham

I cannot believe that this confused people in our government – doesn’t anybody talk to folks in Canada? Or at the Smithsonian’s numismatics bunch?

They were “contractors.”

[Elendil_s_Heir]

CNN.com’s story, much ado about nothing: http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/05/07/canadian.coin.ap/index.html

And we wonder why Uncle Sam’s brainiacs thought Saddam had WMDs…

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@Kythereia

Tim Horton’s is Canada’s version of Starbucks–you just know they’re a front to take over the world…

Especially since Tim Horton’s coffee is actually drinkable as plain ol’ coffee without having to resort to various flavour-a-ccinos.

[Cervaise]

@Elendil's Heir

CNN.com’s story, much ado about nothing: http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/05/07/canadian.coin.ap/index.html

These clowns, it says in the article, apparently believed they were able to recognize nanotechnology with the naked eye.

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@Cervaise

These clowns, it says in the article, apparently believed they were able to recognize nanotechnology with the naked eye.

If you want to really hide something then in plain sight is your best bet. Apparently those dastardly Bolivians have hit on the totally cunning idea of concealing nano-tachnology by making it really, really big.

Thank God we in the Free World have the CIA to protect us against swarthy evil doers no matter what continent they hail from.