Particularly when on sees little gadgets like these below are being used and circulated against people that are supposed to be on the cutting edge of such technology and it's use. I'm not one of these "black helicopter government out to get us Alex Jones type loony tooners", but there is an awful lot of personal info and privacy issues that need to be looked at as fast or faster as the technology overtakes laws regarding such stuff. And yes, I am for the president's wiretapping of overseas communications initiating in known terrorist countries to shaky recipients here in the states.
But if governmental agency employees are being burned by stuff like this, imagine how susceptible we average Joe's and Jane's are against such things.
But if governmental agency employees are being burned by stuff like this, imagine how susceptible we average Joe's and Jane's are against such things.
Defense Workers Warned About Spy CoinsFiled Under Miscellaneous, Technology
WASHINGTON (AP) MyWay News- Can the coins jingling in your pocket trace your movements?
The Defense Department is warning its American contractor employees about a new espionage threat seemingly straight from Hollywood: It discovered Canadian coins with tiny radio frequency transmitters hidden inside.
In a U.S. government report, it 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.
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 intelligence and technology 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. read more
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