# Watch out... spy coins!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watch-out-spy-coins/387554>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [January 11, 2007, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watch-out-spy-coins/387554 "2007-01-11T15:16:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watch-out-spy-coins/387554/1 "2007-01-11T15:16:52Z")

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[http://money.aol.com/news/articles/\_a/defense-contractors-warned-about-spy/20070111063409990001](http://money.aol.com/news/articles/_a/defense-contractors-warned-about-spy/20070111063409990001)

Jeez… as if we didn’t have enough to worry about. How long before Bush’s merry men (and women) at the NSA develop coins small enough to carry bugs? They could make sure “persons of interest” get them as change at the corner grocery store or Starbucks… or, if cost-effective, put enough into circulation that, sooner or later, just about everyone has one.

OK, I’m a little paranoid. Or aren’t I?

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watch-out-spy-coins/387554/2 "2007-01-11T15:18:39Z")

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[yakov smirnoff]

In Bush’s America, coins collect **you!**

[/ys]

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watch-out-spy-coins/387554/3 "2007-01-11T15:23:47Z")

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[MPSIMS thread.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=403447)

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watch-out-spy-coins/387554/4 "2007-01-11T15:28:01Z")

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Thanks, I hadn’t seen that. Mods, please close this thread.