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Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Canadian coins bugged?

Doran says: "Small transmitters have been found in Canadian coins carried by at least three U.S. contractors who have visited Canada. The existence of the coins was revealed in a report from the U.S. Defense Security Service entitled 'Technology Collection Trends in the U.S. Defense Industry.' (I found this from Slashdot)"

"On at least three separate occasions between October 2005 and January 2006, cleared defence contractors' employees travelling through Canada have discovered radio frequency transmitters embedded in Canadian coins placed on their persons," the report says.

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Andrew says: Thought you might be interested in this followup article on the subject from The Globe & Mail:

It quotes an un-named US government official as saying that the report is overblown, and that all that happened was that the contractors were given certain special-issue that they were unfamiliar with. My guess is that it was either the Remembrance Day Poppy quarter or the Breast Cancer Ribbon quarter both of which have colours printed on them that result in the coin having a rather strange texture and appearance.

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