New Way to Smuggle Data: Inside a Hollow Nickel
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008
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Comments:
Nickel.
thats amazing
old way to smuggle new data http://www.fbi.gov/libref/historic/famcases/abel/abel.htm
Hitler used one
Cool until you need one and you go look for one and your like oh here is one and you gave away all your data! but other then that its great :D
Goodwin strikes again!
So where do you hide the card reader?
I bought (and still have) a gag Nickel I bought at Astroworld in Houston almost 40 years ago that is a real nickel that holds water and when squeezed it shoots a fine stream at your victim.
Dave
shopped...you can tell
here's the SD to Micro SD adapter go ?
cool but how much data will it hold?
I seem to recall hollowed-out nickels being used in WWII times to pass enciphered messages.
photoshopped
The data is not safe, see the Micro SD card is made in Taiwan..
Gotta hate those idiots that says EVERYTHING is Photoshopped! This is a product that is FOR SALE at a dozen places on the web...do you think they will send you a 'shopped image of the product...IDIOT!
On the product...great post!
You could stash some kief in there!
If I had one, I think I'd take a Sharpie and draw a big X or something on it. So I won't accidentally spend it.
Does that defeat the purpose?
what kind of stuff would you need to smuggle on an SD card?
I'd probably spend it.
This is illegal...so good luck keeping this business alive long.
Good because until they create some kind of world wide computer network you won't be able to send the data that way.
Yeah this clearly is photoshopped. I've seen it many times before. You can see it from the pixels.
Call me old fashione, but I'd probably just put the chip in my pocket...
Is there an army of people out there whose sole purpose in life is to post "that's Photoshopped" on every WWW image? Someone should create a filter for that. If they could filter out Ron Paul freaks I'm sure they could filter out the Photoshopped freaks.
I have seen similar coins, -usually a nickel, that have been hollowed-out using a precision laser, and you can slide a dime inside of it. A common 'magic store' novelty item. There is this catalog company in the States that sells these, along with those glass birds that drink from a cup of water, solar-power wind-mills, etc..
I think the coin was like $19.99 or less(??)
Back in the 1970, we has a FBI representative come to our school classroom to do a speech on continuing education and possibly, seeking a career in Law Enforcement, and his video/slideshow presentation showed this type of coin. It was something that someone found in their pocket change, and it actually contained a microfiche, -a 'negative', that was in code and to that date, the code had not be decipherable.. It was widely believed that a foreign spy had inadvertently LOST or SPENT the coin thus, -losing the microfiche!
Point was made that this was a poor way to move data, due to it's vulnerability to be lost...m
what do you mean shopped, you click on the picture to buy them. Actually, machining out a nickel seems more probable to me than photo shopping one!!!!
I wonder how they "Photoshopped" the ones I own. They are pretty cool. Yes fools most images are "Photoshopped" to clean them up, but unlike your lives, not everything is fake. Kinda like guns don't kill people people kill people. Think about it!
That would be immediately suspicious because who carries change around anymore?
USB disks do not need a card reader, they fit in the USB port of the computer.
Hey, I can probably stuff my traveling stash of LSD inside that!
Obviously Scott's and Anonymous's recent comments are fake. There's no way that such amazing technology can exist. If we could do this then flying cars would be possible!
/it's called sarcasm noobs - welcome to the Series of Tubes we like to call Teh Interwebs.
Someone said it earlier, but yes, this is illegal to do. The coin is still property of the federal government; the person that possesses it only owns the value of it. Defacing it in any way is destruction of federal property, which I believe is a felony, but I don't know specifics.
NOT PHOTOSHOPPED
I HAVE A HOLLOW COIN LIKE THAT AND ITS RLY USED FOR MAGIC TRICKS, BUT I GUESS SOMEONE CAN USE IT FOR SOMETHING LIKE SMUGGLING MEMORY IF NEED BE!
Photoshop is not a verb.
Yes, but, will it blend?
Looks nice, but you won't be able to get this pastairport security...
This is without a doubt PHOTOSHOPPED
-jm
"This is without a doubt PHOTOSHOPPED"
Brilliant detective work! In fact since most people are now using evil photo editing software to improve their images I think we should just shut the whole WWW down.
A visit to a good magic store could provide some suitable coins which may be cheaper if you're lucky,
It's only illegal if the defaced currency goes back into circulation -- another reason not to spend it. That's why it's legal to make those smashed pennies.
it is not photoshopped. I can tell because it even includes the cutting circles left by the etcher. The photo is just a low-res that has been sized bigger. I have photoshopped many things but a picture that tiny would be impossible to put small metalic circles in. Plus the micro sd has all the specs on the back of it. If it was photoshopped it was done by the guy who holds the guiness book of world records best photoshopped picture award.
YOU CAN SEND IT THE U.S. MAIL REGISTERED.
St. Gulik, it is no longer sarcasm; it's just stupid trolling. Working quite well, I might add...
WOW!!! Since i bought my Hollowed-out Coin Smuggler i have been smuggling GIGABYTES when i used to only smuggle individual bytes! I now have sex with pretty much anyone i want! Thanks Hollowed-out Coin Smuggler!
Has anybody noticed that this picture is fake? If you zoom in, you will notice that the smooth lines of the picture start to become little squares. I think they probably used some type of picture editor program on it. My cousin has one and he says this picture is faked.
You will never stop us.
this is shopped, i can tell from some of the comments which say it is shopped.
all comments but this one were photoshopped.
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