TELECOM Digest OnLine - Sorted: Re: Internet Satellite Imagery Under Fire Over Security

Re: Internet Satellite Imagery Under Fire Over Security

Dave Close (dave@compata.com)
Fri, 9 Sep 2005 05:00:56 UTC

Panarat Thepgumpanat <reuters@telecom-digest.org> writes:

> Asian governments have expressed security concerns about easy access
> to detailed satellite images on the Internet, such as those used by
> rescuers in New Orleans, saying the technology could endanger
> sensitive sites.

I guess they will have to do what the US did in Santa Monica during
WW2: build covers over the Douglas Aircraft plant with phony images of
houses, streets, and other structures painted on the cover.

Dave Close, Compata, Costa Mesa CA "Politics is the business of getting
dave@compata.com, +1 714 434 7359 power and privilege without
dhclose@alumni.caltech.edu possessing merit." - P. J. O'Rourke

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