India’s government has joined the governments of Australia, Russia, South Korea and Thailand in asking Google to blur Google Earth images because of security concerns. In September 2005 the company added India, with satellite images of major cities, prompting Indian President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam to raise concerns that terrorists could use the images to plan attacks because of the program’s level of detail. A Times of India report on Sunday said Google has agreed to blur or distort the installations (a resolution no greater than 25 to 50 metres per pixel) instead of blacking them out so as not to draw attention to their locations. On the other hand, a report in Monday's issue of Computerworld quotes a spokeswoman for Google India as saying no agreement has yet been reached.
News source: CBC News
News source: CBC News
Doesnt matter if the images are 5 or 6 years old, houses and buildings dont walk around and move from one place to another, with satellite images we have a very good detailed terrain info.
For guerrilla and small terrorists groups it can be very useful.
If they have limited resources, what are they going to attack with? Rubber bands?
Most terrorist organizations are very well funded and will purchase their own map imagery. Google and MSN maps are not detailed or current enough (don' want to take any chances).
and more, just give some time and you will see in the tv news that a psycho used google earth to slash some victims
I was looking through the MS Live maps the other day and found it quite fun trying to navigate to my house. It's a good idea but because of those who wish to blow themselves up then it will always come under fire from officials.
Maybe if terrorists were using fighter jets and bombers it might be a slight advantage...
rofl.
Last edited by Sumeet on 05 Feb 2007 - 21:18
One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. Nowadays, the word terrorist is used to blanket a lot of organizations by the U.S government unfairly ( eco warriors, animal rights activists, even anyone demonstrating against the government's policy's). The American patriots during the war of independence were classed as terrorists by the British, so although you can shake your head in disbelief on why terrorists do what they do, try walking a day in someone's shoes with the life they've been given to try to understand why they do it. Am I absolving people of their actions, of course not, but as long as government's do what they do, greed does what it does, religion has the ability to control people to go to extremes, terrorism will always have a voice in the world. My personal feeling is that lately in the last 5 years, it's now a term being used to maximize political gain as a way to paint anyone or any organization that doesn't go along with the status quo of a government's policy. If the government gets its way through propaganda, getting through to the hearts and the minds of the people and being classified as a terrorist through extreme measures or just passive resistance, which is how someone like Mahatma Gandhi operated ( imagine calling him a terrorist ), will become one in the same.
I want a million dollars!
Can't these governments understand that not only is this measure pointless, but that it's allowing the terrorists to win? Have these people even looked at the word "terrorist" once in their lives? The point of terrorism is to cause public fear, not to destroy a nation. If nations have a hard time destroying each other, then one guy with a dynamite vest is going to do absolutely nothing. Our governments caving in and implementing policies that change our day-to-day life is proof that our leaders have surrendered to terrorists. Pathetic.
this is idiotic logic
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