Re: OT: Ping Neil

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On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:03:36 -0600, Lnkwizard2 cast into the ether:

Hey Neil!!!

What's up with this. You been moonlighting again?

US Defense Dept. warns about Canadian spy coins

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16572783/?GT1=8921

SFW

That whole story seems a little far fetched. How do you get the coin to
the guy in the first place? Do you have a plant working in a bar that you
know the guy will buy a drink at. and slip it in his change for a
margerita? How do ya know the guy won't just leave it on the bar for a
tip? Maybe you have someone walk up to the mark and just hand it to him.
"Here, sir, I think you dropped this in the lobby of the hotel!" Have a
pickpocket slip it in his pants on an elevator?

Uuuuh-huh.

How do you know the guy won't tip a cabbie with it 20 minutes after you
gave it to him? Or plunk it in a cigarette machine? Or just drop it in his
piggy bank when he gets home? I've got a couple loonies in mine from my
last trip to Canuckistan. Ten years ago. Fat lotta good that'd do anyone,
they probably already know the guy's address.

And as if that isn't enough, what the heck kind of transmitter are they
using that would fit in a coin, and transmit, undetected, with enough
power to track a guy from presumably many, if not hundreds of miles away?

Smells like a mackerel in the sauna, if you ask me.

--
JaR
MCNGP 22
Sceptics Dept.
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