Google Earth a security threat
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Google Earth a security threat
Google Earth asked to back off:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...NGD8GALOR1.DTL
Google Earth maps annoy some countries:
http://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story....29Vz2XLzwfYDgG
Google Earth: A Path to Peace?
http://www.blueoregon.com/2005/12/google_earth_a_.html
Insurgents 'using Google Earth':
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...18/ixhome.html
Interesting subject. Um, now the resource-low insurgents will know where we as well as our high-payoff and high-value targets are (they didn't already?) Um, I don't think this is the first time our tax dollars put the tools of warfare in our enemy's hands, is it?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...NGD8GALOR1.DTL
Google Earth maps annoy some countries:
http://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story....29Vz2XLzwfYDgG
Google Earth: A Path to Peace?
http://www.blueoregon.com/2005/12/google_earth_a_.html
Insurgents 'using Google Earth':
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...18/ixhome.html
Interesting subject. Um, now the resource-low insurgents will know where we as well as our high-payoff and high-value targets are (they didn't already?) Um, I don't think this is the first time our tax dollars put the tools of warfare in our enemy's hands, is it?
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In other news:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/...s-just-in.html
Newsflash - December 24, 2005 - Santa Claus is being tracked in Google Earth. NOTE --this link will open up Google Earth. I don't know what will happen if you haven't downloaded the software.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/...s-just-in.html
Newsflash - December 24, 2005 - Santa Claus is being tracked in Google Earth. NOTE --this link will open up Google Earth. I don't know what will happen if you haven't downloaded the software.
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umm, How useful are the google earth images? As in how up to date are they?
<snip>"Google Earth is not acquiring new imagery," said John Pike, director of Globalsecurity.org, which has an online repository of satellite imagery. "They are simply repurposing imagery that somebody else had already acquired. So if there was any harm that was going to be done by the imagery, it would already be done."</snip>
--from one of your links.
This program just makes it easier (and cheaper?) to get what is already out there.
<snip>"Google Earth is not acquiring new imagery," said John Pike, director of Globalsecurity.org, which has an online repository of satellite imagery. "They are simply repurposing imagery that somebody else had already acquired. So if there was any harm that was going to be done by the imagery, it would already be done."</snip>
--from one of your links.
This program just makes it easier (and cheaper?) to get what is already out there.
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counterpoint:
It's also kind of exciting to think that the Internet, a system designed by the military, might ultimately serve to render miltaries unnecessary.
<snip>The images on the website are not live and are, on average, about 18 months old, but Prof Collins said this would not make them obsolete as an aide for terrorists. "If you were interested in vehicles, then that would be a problem but if you are looking at a fixed installation like a military base then it won't have changed that much."</snip>
It's also kind of exciting to think that the Internet, a system designed by the military, might ultimately serve to render miltaries unnecessary.
<snip>The images on the website are not live and are, on average, about 18 months old, but Prof Collins said this would not make them obsolete as an aide for terrorists. "If you were interested in vehicles, then that would be a problem but if you are looking at a fixed installation like a military base then it won't have changed that much."</snip>
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If you look at Washington DC... the White House is in clear, high-res imagery, while the Capitol Building is blurred out.
If you look at Edwards AFB, CA you can clearly see 2 SR-71 blackbirds.
If you look at Edwards AFB, CA you can clearly see 2 SR-71 blackbirds.
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Originally Posted by spedmunki
i don't know how up-to-date Google Earth is but I know that other programs like it ,like Keyhole, use pics from like 5 years ago...
Originally Posted by MonkeyAB
<snip>The images on the website are not live and are, on average, about 18 months old, but Prof Collins said this would not make them obsolete as an aide for terrorists. "If you were interested in vehicles, then that would be a problem but if you are looking at a fixed installation like a military base then it won't have changed that much."</snip>
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...ultimately serve to render miltaries unnecessary.
I'm afraid it's not going to be in my children's children's lifetime.
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Originally Posted by jvick125
If you look at Washington DC... the White House is in clear, high-res imagery, while the Capitol Building is blurred out.
If you look at Edwards AFB, CA you can clearly see 2 SR-71 blackbirds.
If you look at Edwards AFB, CA you can clearly see 2 SR-71 blackbirds.
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Don't they have one on display in their outdoors aircraft museum? I wonder how old that is? SR71's in the air isn't exactly a common occurence.
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The SR71s were retired in 1990:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SR-71
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SR-71
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Originally Posted by HellaDumb
The SR71s were retired in 1990:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SR-71
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SR-71
The USAF returned the SR-71 to the active Air Force inventory in 1995 and began flying operational missions in January 1997. The planes were permanently retired in 1998.
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Oh yeah, you can see lots of Area 51, and lots of other places too, but not everything is in this high a resolution...
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