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Google Maps Terror Threat

posted by Satri on Sunday October 16, @07:15PM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the terror-hides-in-space-and-time dept.
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This whole story stolen from slashdot: a CNN article wherein Indian President Abdul Kalam stated his concerns that Google Maps could be used to aid terrorists. From the article: "The Google site contains clear aerial photos of India's parliament building, the president's house and surrounding government offices in New Delhi. There are also some clear shots of Indian defense establishments. Debbie Frost, spokewoman for Mountain View, California-based Google, noted that the software uses information already available from public sources and the images displayed are about one to two years old, not shown in real time."

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  • Overblown threat

    (Score:2, Interesting)
    by LKS (125) <walt.eisNO@SPAMgmail.com> on Wednesday October 19, @08:17AM (#128)
    ( http://lordkingsquirrel.com/ )
    An analyst with Jane's Defence Weekly was quoted [iol.co.za] on the Independent Online's site as saying that images like those shown by Google could make operational plans vulnerable. You'd think that someone who is paid to analyze this type of thing would understand that 2-3 year old images aren't going to have any tactical use.

    It's odd that at a time when the general public is becoming more knowledgable about RS and the like a "professional" can't even understand the basics.