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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.

Intelligence and technology experts said such transmitters, if they exist, could be used to surreptitiously track the movements of people carrying the spy coins.

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.

Further details were secret, according to the U.S. Defense Security Service, which issued the warning to the Pentagon's classified contractors. The government insists the incidents happened, and the risk was genuine.

"What's in the report is true," said Martha Deutscher, a spokeswoman for the security service. "This is indeed a sanitized version, which leaves a lot of questions."

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.



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070111/ap_on_hi_te/spy_coins

There's more but It's a bit too long to post here, so just follow the link to read more...

I actually find this quite disturbing that they now have the ability to track the money in your pocket? :-\

shows how at risk your privacy really is.

*shakes head* what a piece of shit of an article.

what they dont tell you is that they were RFID tags, they have a insanely short range..... wtf good would they have been? there were no audio transmissions the things were too small to do it.... and it was ina  fucking coin.... hell first drink machine there it is gone.. and what was teh use of the tracker? bes t you could do is to see where the people went..... and to me if with the short range of these..... i would say it was actually the US making sure it had an exac line on all thier people knowing where they did or did not go. think al small scanner found outside the rooms of forgien persons... and the coin passes through the range of it and wham lookie lookie someone was tring to sneak out with top lvl intel.... lol.... and come on they are only good for a closed aera for tracking.... not good for general tracking

yeah i'm spying on all of you....beware the loonie :hihi:

 ::) gimme a break