Imaginary Nanotech of the North Spooks U.S. Defense Officials

While it isn't a Mooninite level of phony panic, it is pretty amusing: The Associated Press reports on how the U.S. Defense Security Service (a division of the Defense Department) spread false rumors that a common Canadian coin was in fact a nanotech-embedded tracking device meant to spy on U.S. contractors for nefarious purposes.

[Hat tip to reader Jay Weiser.]