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Re: Internet Satellite Imagery Under Fire Over Security

Gene S. Berkowitz (first.last@comcast.net)
Sat, 10 Sep 2005 23:14:06 -0400

In article <telecom24.413.9@telecom-digest.org>, jbburks@hotmail.com
says:

> Panarat Thepgumpanat <reuters@telecom-digest.org> wrote in message
> news:telecom24.408.2@telecom-digest.org:

>> By Panarat Thepgumpanat

>> 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.

> Google should do the same as they do for the US. Currently, they
> block the roof of the White House, and buildings around it. View
> 1600 Pennsylvania and see. As you zoom in, at a certain magnification,
> the roofs are whited out.

> Either respect the wishes of those countries and 'mask' their sensitive
> sites, or don't mask ours.

> Jim Burks
> Collierville, TN

If the sites are so sensitive, let them use camouflage. All the
Google masking does is highlight "sensitive" sites even more, like:

N38.92138 W77.06686
or:
N37.275000, W115.791667
while at the same time, they don't even bother with:
N38.74080 W104.83317

--Gene

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