[Dakar²]

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

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 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.

Experts said such tiny transmitters would almost certainly have limited range to communicate with sensors no more than a few feet away, such as ones hidden inside a doorway. The metal in the coins also could interfere with any signals emitted.

"I'm not aware of any (transmitter) that would fit inside a coin and broadcast for kilometers," said Katherine Albrecht, an activist who believes such technology carries serious privacy risks. "Whoever did this obviously has access to some pretty advanced technology."

This raises so many questions I don't know where to begin. Mainly, I wanna know who the hell walks around with Canadian change on them regularly enough for this to work?

And no, I don't think the Canadian government is trying to spy on us.

[design219]

I've never trusted Canadians. There's not any Canadians in here are there? Don't Candians all use PCs?

[turtle777]

Only in America™

-t

[SSharon]

I hear all Canadians are gay

[Eug]

I think that's why the Toonie is actually designed the way it is. Easy transmitter swappability.

[design219]

Salty?

[Dark Helmet]

Originally Posted by design219 

Don't Candians all use PCs?

What contractor gets paid under $2 to have these coins?

[Zeeb]

Canadians are treacherous and can never be trusted. Who cares that their intelligence service denied that they were behind it? We all know Canadians lie and are affliliated with Al Quaeda. They are jealous of our Bush. A good Bush is hard to find and they want it. We should invade tomorrow over this and stop them from pronouncing "about" as "aboot".

[Dark Helmet]

Originally Posted by Zeeb 

We should invade tomorrow over this and stop them from pronouncing "about" as "aboot".

Only when americans stop saying "Can I AXE you a question".

[Dakar²]

You must be using an archaic form of pronunciation, like saying 'ask' instead
of 'axe'.

.

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by Dark Helmet 

Only when americans stop saying "Can I AXE you a question".

I have only heard black folk saying that.

-t

[Dakar²]

While eating chicken and grape drink.

[residentEvil]

orange drink. you got five cent?

[design219]

Those Homeland Defense people are good. I wonder how long it took to notice these?

[Dakar²]

Originally Posted by residentEvil 

orange drink. you got five cent?

five cent? You already owe tree-fitty!

[Gossamer]

Originally Posted by Dakar² 

While eating chicken and grape drink.

I thought it was Olde English in brown bagged 40s.

[Dakar²]

Originally Posted by Gossamer 

I thought it was Olde English in brown bagged 40s.

By that time, their speech is so slurred it starts sounding like 'ask' again.

[Dark Helmet]

Originally Posted by turtle777 

I have only heard black folk saying that.

-t

Ya I hear there is a couple in the US.

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by Dark Helmet 

Ya I hear there is a couple in the US.

Well, yeah, It's too cold in Canada.

-t

[pcryan5]

Originally Posted by Zeeb 

. We should invade tomorrow over this and stop them from pronouncing "about" as "aboot".

easy there grasshopper - remember we whopped your arse last time.

~ (not very) Sneaky Canuck
Tongue firmly in cheek

[brassplayersrock²]

never mind.
Alex

[Mastrap]

It's the long winters. We have nothing else to do. Sorry.

[Atomic Rooster]

Jeez, I missed this thread.

Merika be afraid, be very, very afraid for they walkest amongst you and blendeth in like merikans until the time of the signal at the secret of all secret times and then you shall be smited.

This is in the bible I'm writing.

[Railroader]

Hmmm... USA and Canada spying on each other.

I'll bet it was all about the Stanley Cup! That thing has been bugged for decades.

[ShortcutToMoncton]

Originally Posted by Railroader 

Hmmm... USA and Canada spying on each other.

I'll bet it was all about the Stanley Cup! That thing has been bugged for decades.

That was probably the most genius idea I've ever heard. And we wonder why it never seems to return to Canada....!



greg

[Eriamjh]

Canada could have been a great country. They could have had the technology of the Americans, the culture of the British, and cuisine of the French.

Instead, they ended up with the technology of the French, the culture of the Americans, and the cuisine of the British.

[drnkn_stylz]

Originally Posted by Eug 

I think that's why the Toonie is actually designed the way it is. Easy transmitter swappability.

Man here in Canada we joke about that. You can't get the center out even with a hammer. I have mangled a toonie trying. Some of the first few made were reported of doing that, but that's it.

Frankly I think that whole article is a joke. Canadians don't give enough of a rats ass to concoct such a ridiculous spy tool. Radio transmitters in coins for spying on our neighbouring country with OUR coins? Seriously now...

[Dakar²]

Lies! Canadian lies!

[Desperate]

Oh Dear, I know now why Canadians are loved around the world. I can't imagine anybody posting like I read in here. Horrified!
Desperate

[Dark Helmet]

Originally Posted by Dakar² 

Lies! Canadian lies!

Lies! American lies!

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...6_coins19.html

[kmkkid]

I'd be more concerned about the still existent Russian spies than Canadians spying on you.

[Gossamer]

The Defense Security Service said it never could substantiate its own published claims about the mysterious coins. It has begun an internal review to determine how the false information was included in a 29-page report about espionage concerns.

How the heck did that get in there? I bet somebody slipped it into the report as a joke on their last day of work...

[Dakar²]

Originally Posted by Dark Helmet 

Lies! American lies!

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...6_coins19.html

Great, so now Canadians have infiltrated out intelligence services and have begun a cover up of their espionage efforts.

Will Canadian treachery ever stop?

[analogue SPRINKLES]

Mystery revealed: Canada's harmless 'poppy quarter' led to spy coin warnings in US - Northwest Florida Daily News

"The odd-looking coins with a bright red flower were so unfamiliar to suspicious U.S. Army contractors traveling in Canada they filed confidential espionage accounts about them. The worried contractors described the coins as "anomalous" and "filled with something man-made that looked like nano-technology," according to once-classified U.S. government reports and e-mails obtained by the AP."

"It did not appear to be electronic (analog) in nature or have a power source," wrote one U.S. contractor, who discovered the coin in the cup holder of a rental car. "Under high power microscope, it appeared to be complex consisting of several layers of clear, but different material, with a wire like mesh suspended on top."

"One contractor believed someone had placed two of the quarters in an outer coat pocket after the contractor had emptied the pocket hours earlier. "Coat pockets were empty that morning and I was keeping all of my coins in a plastic bag in my inner coat pocket," the contractor wrote."

Could these possibly be the stupidest people on the face of this earth? They come to Canada, think spies put quarters with red dots in their pockets with nano tech and radio transmitters?

[Dakarʒ]

Apparently they're so bored in Canada they start imagining exciting thing are happening to them.

[analogue SPRINKLES]

Originally Posted by Dakarʒ 

Apparently they're so bored in Canada they start imagining exciting thing are happening to them.

Or they think they are more important than they are and as paranoid as the rest of em.

"Oooh we are americans in another country. Everyone must know that and will slip weird looking spy quarters in our pockets to spy on us Americans doing whatever it is we do that is so important."

[Dakarʒ]

Over-inflated sense of self-importance.

[design219]

I wonder what this episode cost taxpayers?

[kmkkid]

@ stupid people

[James L]

You Americans actually all work for us... you just don't know it yet.

I would like to say kudos to the brilliant yank who figured out our master plan to hide a transmitter in a coin, and leave that coin in a rental car that we hoped he would drive all the way back to high levels of the US government where we could then spy our hearts away.

[eivlLaugh] MWAHAHAHAHA! [/evilLaugh]

And we would have gotten away with it, if it wasn't for you kids and that damn meddling dog!

Seriously though, they took the coin and examined it under a high powered microscope?

I didn't realize the US Army contracted out to people who wear tinfoil on their head!

[analogue SPRINKLES]

Originally Posted by James L 

I would like to say kudos to the brilliant yank who figured out our master plan to hide a transmitter in a coin, and leave that coin in a rental car that we hoped he would drive all the way back to high levels of the US government where we could then spy our hearts away.

You'd think any spy would be smart enough to make the coin stand out with red paint.

[Eug]

Originally Posted by analogue SPRINKLES 

Could these possibly be the stupidest people on the face of this earth?

Yes indeed. Quite possibly.

Then again, these coins did come about because of the military, and it was that Canadian institution that first started distributing them. It is of note that Tim's has been trying to infiltrate the US as of late.



In all seriousness though, these were just special release coins that commemorated our war veterans. The red flower is a poppy from Flanders Fields. Basically the coins just have a textured centre, with red paint on it. The texture is to keep the paint from wearing off too quickly. And that's exactly what they look like. You'd have to be pretty frickin strange to think it looked like some high tech device.

[tie]

Canada is spying on us and collaborating with Al Qaeda? What are we to do? Let's bomb Sweden!

[bstone]

Originally Posted by turtle777 

Only in America™

-t

Only on MacNN™.

[Atomic Rooster]

Canada mints world's biggest gold coin.

Got change for a million? Canada does: the world's biggest pure gold coin at 200 pounds. Already, three buyers have shelled out for one of the 1 million Canadian dollar coins introduced last week. 20 inches in diameter and 1 inch thick.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070506/.../odd_huge_coin

This one contains a 'worm hole' to another dimension.

[Eug]

Originally Posted by Atomic Rooster 

Canada mints world's biggest gold coin.

Got change for a million? Canada does: the world's biggest pure gold coin at 200 pounds. Already, three buyers have shelled out for one of the 1 million Canadian dollar coins introduced last week. 20 inches in diameter and 1 inch thick.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070506/.../odd_huge_coin

This one contains a 'worm hole' to another dimension.

Heh. The article says they cost $2.7 million.

[JoshuaZ]

1 Million Canadian Dollars.... likes like... $20!

[James L]

Originally Posted by JoshuaZ 

1 Million Canadian Dollars.... likes like... $20!

At today's exchange rate, $1 million Canuck bucks = $900,982.08 USD.

[Mithras]

Originally Posted by turtle777

I have only heard black folk saying that.

Originally Posted by Dark Helmet 

Ya I hear there is a couple in the US.

Originally Posted by turtle777 

Well, yeah, It's too cold in Canada.

That remind me, I was looking through the HarperCollins Canada catalog recently, and there was a page about some book on black Canadians. There was a blurb, apparently meant to be rather exciting, that said:

This book will likely do for black Canadians what so-and-so's book did for the Montreal Jews

And I thought, huh. A big deal, then?

[Dakarʒ]

Originally Posted by James L 

At today's exchange rate, $1 million Canuck bucks = $900,982.08 USD.

It's a good thing you were here to point that out. I don't know how JoshuaZ could have been under such a grossly inaccurate misconception.