[GMMAC]

Kanuckistani "Spy Coins" horsepoop threads on FR over the past week:

U.S. warns about Canadian spy coins ~ presidio9

Defense Workers Warned About Spy Coins ~ Nachum

Canadian coins bugged, U.S. security agency says [RFID] ~ sionnsar

Spies put transmitters in Canadian coins: Report ~ tlb

Perhaps the initial posters of these articles would like to ping those who commented on them to let them know ...

"never mind"

[GMMAC]

PING!

[cripplecreek]

It never made any sense to me. Go fishing for national secrets only to hear the cashier at 7Eleven or something.

[sionnsar]

Hollowed-out coins have long been used in the intelligence world to conceal messages and microfilm.

Not to mention that spy pilot Gary Power's suicide (pill? injection?) was allegedly contained in a coin.

[kinoxi]

'Nothing to see here, move along people...'

[Cicero]

The story seems absurd on its face, because how could you put a transmitter inside an all metal coin? And if part of the exterior of the coin was plastic or some insulating material, that would be pretty obvious, too.

You can't get a radio signal to transmit out of a metal box that completely surrounds the transmitter on all sides. At least that's my understanding of the elementary physics of the matter.

[nkycincinnatikid]

Aren't Canadian coins the ones no one ever bothers to retrieve out of the wahing machine?