Spy Coins?
Because we really needed another way to be spied on...
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CNN posted an article about tiny transmitters embedded in some Canadian coins and planted on contractors with security clearance. From the article:
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 insidee. Experts were astonished about the disclosure and the novel tracking technique...Okaaaaay…. So, this is "creepy", and "novel"? First of all, coins can be given away very easily thus defeating the point of tracking the recipient. Second, the metal of the coin will inhibit the transmitters. Third, tracking technology already exists and is being used now. It's called rfid and it's already being put into our merchandise and even our clothes. Basically, it's much worse than coins.
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