Way to go American Intelligence!

[Orpheus]

Wonder why American intelligence is having such a hard time combatting terrorists? Check this out:

http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_10737.aspx

 

[joshpooh]

wow stupidity at its finest.

 

[Fingers]

Yeah, that made the paper up here. We were laughing pretty good at it. Apparently they even did some confirming anaylsis at one point. It was attributed to the FBI I think.

 

[feedthebear]

The "discovery" actually led to a ridiculous warning from the U.S. Defence Department that coins with radio transmitters had been found on three contractors with top secret clearance as they came through Canada.

I actually received a work email about thie DoD warning. I couldn't keep a straight face when I read it.

 

[Cheesefood]

Sure, to us it's funny. But to those who realize that anything can be a tracking device, it's a bit scary.

 

[feedthebear]

There are easier ways to track somebody than to insert a chip into a quarter. Just slip one of those Nike iPod sensors on them and you can track them everywhere they go using a modified GPS. Figure out how to attach a little mic. to it and you can listen to them too.

 

[Pumbaa]

There are easier ways to track somebody than to insert a chip into a quarter. Just slip one of those Nike iPod sensors on them and you can track them everywhere they go using a modified GPS. Figure out how to attach a little mic. to it and you can listen to them too.

Why go to the trouble and expense of the I-pod when you can do the exact same thing with thier own cell phone?

 

[Thalon]

Watch the movie The Recruit. They have organic spy microphones that will attach to almost any surface and consume itself in 48 hours. That creeped me out.

 

[Fingers]

Sure, to us it's funny. But to those who realize that anything can be a tracking device, it's a bit scary.

Yeah, that's true Cheese, but it takes considerable effort and expense to put a transmitter on someone and it would be nice for it to have a life span longer than it takes to buy a doughnut. It wasn't so much much that we were laughing at the prospect of a micro transmitter being planted, it was the folly of thinking that someone with so advanced a technology would plant it on an item that can and likely will be disposed of at any time.