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January 11, 2007
Brother, Can You Spare A Surveillance Device?
According to this AP article, American defense contractors working in Canada have discovered tiny surveillance devices inside Canadian coins.
Sound incredible? It just might not be true.
This Globe and Mail article tells that the coins believed to have been tampered with are actually special commemorative coins produced by the Royal Canadian Mint. I can't say I blame foreigners in Canada for getting confused about our coinage, it seems every other year the Mint is commemorating something new, from the Terry Fox Loonie to the 12 different quarters marking Canada's 125th anniversary, to the 24 different quarters marking the new millennium, to the coloured quarters (link). I collect these things and I get confused!
It would seem to me that coins are a bad way to track people, since they get spent, lost or given away so easily. Who knows, maybe some foreign intelligence service is really concerned about how much Second Cup baristas get tipped?
Comments
My favourite line from the Globe & Mail article:
"But the item about the Canadian coins item appeared to be the result of only partial intelligence."
Partial, indeed!
Posted by: mark at January 15, 2007 4:56 AM