Have Laptop Will Travel

This photo released by the Central Intelligence Agency shows a hollow container, fashioned to look like an Eisenhower silver dollar, which is still used to hide and send messages or film, without being detected.

It is similar to the Canadian coin that was found on some United States contractors.

Because it resembles ordinary pocket change, it is virtually undetectable as a concealment device.

In a U.S. government warning high on the creepiness scale, the Defense Department cautioned its American contractors over what it described as a new espionage threat: Canadian coins with tiny radio frequency transmitters hidden inside.

The government said the mysterious coins were found planted on U.S. contractors with classified security clearances on at least three separate occasions between October 2005 and January 2006 as the contractors traveled through Canada.

Read the full story via MSNBC.com

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