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2007-01-11 Home Front: WoT

U.S. defense workers warned about Canadian spy coins

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Posted by Seafarious 2007-01-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Check the vending machines.

Posted by gorb 2007-01-11 02:50|| 2007-01-11 02:50|| Front Page Top

#2 ALL CONTRACTORS.....Start using THE CONE OF SILENCE!!

Posted by ARMYGUY 2007-01-11 07:03|| 2007-01-11 07:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Russia typically uses countries adjacent to their target country for espionage. This is why they have an enormous "Canadian interest" branch, yet have always only engaged in very limited espionage against Canada.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-01-11 08:08|| 2007-01-11 08:08|| Front Page Top

#4 I've always believed "money talks"

Posted by PlanetDan">PlanetDan 2007-01-11 08:53|| 2007-01-11 08:53|| Front Page Top

#5 Looney story for sure.

Posted by Shipman 2007-01-11 08:53|| 2007-01-11 08:53|| Front Page Top

#6 I'll buy that for a dollar.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-01-11 09:20|| 2007-01-11 09:20|| Front Page Top

#7 Wow. The main thing I take from this is that Canadian coins are actually useful for something...

Posted by tu3031 2007-01-11 09:37|| 2007-01-11 09:37|| Front Page Top

#8 Put the coins next to an all Muzak station. See who jumps out of their windows in a few hours then we will know who started it.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-01-11 10:42|| 2007-01-11 10:42|| Front Page Top

#9 I bet it's Russian

Posted by Spomort Greling4204 2007-01-11 11:21|| 2007-01-11 11:21|| Front Page Top

#10 I safely keep more and more secrete stuff upstairs all the time now, seems like I hardly ever access it when needed tho.

Posted by RD 2007-01-11 13:24|| 2007-01-11 13:24|| Front Page Top

#11 That's an awful lot of technology just to trace the free exchange of money. Kinda boggles the mind.

Posted by wxjames 2007-01-11 13:25|| 2007-01-11 13:25|| Front Page Top

#12 What it sounds like is someone was testing a rfi tagged coin for use in vending machines, ATMs, cash registers, etc and they got out into the 'wild'. I have read before about the US Treasury thinking about putting them in currency, but it was shot down.

Posted by Steve">Steve 2007-01-11 14:30|| 2007-01-11 14:30|| Front Page Top

#13 What it sounds like is someone was testing a rfi tagged coin for use in vending machines, ATMs...

How would one use (deposit or receive) a coin (tagged or otherwise) from an ATM machine?

Posted by Chuck Darwin 2007-01-11 15:00|| 2007-01-11 15:00|| Front Page Top

#14 Well, in the US, the biggest coin in use is $1. Other countries commonly use bigger denominations. I don't know if Canada does, but I just used ATM as an example of a machine that could use a rfi to read the coins value.

Posted by Steve">Steve 2007-01-11 15:16|| 2007-01-11 15:16|| Front Page Top

#15 Well, in the US, the biggest coin in use is $1. Other countries commonly use bigger denominations. I don't know if Canada does, but I just used ATM as an example of a machine that could use a rfi to read the coins value.

Okay, I'll rephrase the inquiry. Name one instance of an ATM (Automated Teller Machine) that either dispenses, or accepts coinage. I've only seen ATM machines that dispense bills, and accept deposits of bills in a numbered envelope.

Posted by Chuck Darwin 2007-01-11 16:04|| 2007-01-11 16:04|| Front Page Top

#16 Steve,

Canada has a C$1 coin, nicknamed the loonie. It has a C$2 coin, nicknamed the toonie.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2007-01-11 23:14|| 2007-01-11 23:14|| Front Page Top

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