Yesterday's newspapers conbtained an article saying that U.S. military intelligence suspected the Canadian government was spying on them by using nanotechnology in coins. The coins in question had red imprints on them, which the U.S. agents thought implemented advanced nanotechnology capable of spying on the activities of the bearer. Today, I visited an agricultural website, looking at a page of price data. I was shocked to see that Chinese characters were mixed in with alphabetic characters and roman numbers. It turns out that I accidentally viewed the site with "Chinese Simplified (GB2312)" encoding turned on in my web browser. Switching back to a "Western European" encoding converted the site back into an English langauge table containing commodities and prices. What is really going on? Are spies putting messages into what otherwise appear to be ordinary websites with ordinary data?
I'm sure there's a lot of spying that is going on right now that we don't know about. I wouldn't doubt it happens on the internet, since it's so easy to use. i dont see why spies would rather send physical letters or make phone calls than use websites.. i'm not really concerned though since it's nothign i can stop, or want to for that matter
Yes. they are watching everything you do. They probably have a nanotech camera hidden in the dirt under your fingernail so they can see what your typing.
you are talking about spying, i guess nano tech in coins is more interesting rather! but then spying on net is not all that easy, there are thousands of detectors and it can prevent the browsers to leak out any info!
the coin issue was on slashdot yesterday, the so called nanotech coins were just one of many colored comemorative coins issued by the canadian government, no nanotech here, just macro-ignorance on USA security personnel, just like the boston scare (yeah the terrorism handbook is very clear, always put flashiest possible light show on your bombs, even if it means leaving nothing left to actually put explosives in (like the moononites billboards )