RE: http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,163855,00.html

I believe those satellite image providers who refuse to comply with the security interests of our military should be regarded as spies and be treated in the manner we would treat any person or organization guilty of espionage.

Deb

The technology is amazing and if you know what to look for, it's unbelievable what you can see.

How is anyone really going to limit the internet?
Respectfully, SUNLINER81

Were has the military been for the last few years. Hell a couple of years ago you could go to
Area 51, and not only could you see the buildings and runways, but it would give you the building numbers, the title of the building, and how long the runway, or should I say runways are including the run-off, the engine run area, roads dissapearing into mountains, etc. I would like to think that the military is not going to let you see anything they dont want you to see. As far as the maps and the legends, you can get that stuff out of book atlas's.

The sky is falling.

Not something I'd really thought of before, but when you come to think of it, it sort of eliminates the need for spy planes . . .spy satellites and all the rest of it. And you can try, but I don't think you will limit the technology, and only American firms need to bother to comply. That's the trouble with tecnological advance, once it's out there, it's hard to limit the use to your friends.

Google Earth is NOT a threat, since much of the imagery is several years old. Also, the Street View feature is only available via Google MAPS, not Google EARTH. If you want to be safe from Street View, then move onto a military installation.

I'll tell you guys just how scary this stuff is. A few months back a friend in Australia, yep, I said Australia, sent me a link to a site down there that did satellite imaging. I keyed in my address, and it started to zoom down. Hell, by the time it finished I could read the number plate on my car and look in the living room windows. That scared me. It's out there, and I wish we could guarantee that only the good guys will use it. If I could post the link I would, but I've lost it, but you'd be amazed.

Just seems like another leveling of the playing field. It happens through history all the time.

How about instead of medicating the symptoms of our worlds problems, we stop causeing most of the problems by starting religious wars with other Theocracies we don't share philosophies with?

"Lighthouses are more helpful then churches." -Benjamin Franklin, American Founding Father, author, and inventor

Stephen, Huntsville, Alabama

Very soon, the neocon leadership will tell you that thinking about them in certain ways is a threat to national security.(many so-called conservatives are already doing so).

Democracy has many enemies inside. Way too many.

Amendment IV

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.


I guess the guys that wrote this didn't think we would make it in to space.

I believe we need to make sure that all military and even sensitive areas like nuclear power or major electrical grid interface stations are not visible at least through Google but somehow if the Google guys can get aerial photos certainly then the Chinese can get them from the Russian Space Agency or from their own satellites which have not been intentionally blurred like all of Google images are.


Keep in mind that some of these imigaes are very old and base photos should not be updated.

Some of these photos are so old that when I Googled the address of the place I grew up as a child outside of Boston, I saw my mom pushing me around the neighborhood in my baby stroller back in 1945. Imagine that.

EVERYTHING is a potential threat. Technology is both a blessing and a curse. The best way to keep your enemies from using it against you is to make them your friends and try not to piss off the entire world with arrogance and greed.

We Can See Them And They Can See Us.

Lets Give Them A Lot To Look At.

Some cities have sites where you can type in your address and get an aerial view of your house as well as other information such as what a real estate agent might use to help clients find a house.

You still can, I was there a couple of weeks ago. Could even see planes parked on the ramp.

Groom Lake's cover was blown during the Clinton administration over a pollution issue if I remember correctly. Some of the workers were suing the place for improper disposal of hazardous waste.

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Originally posted by phantomfire:
Were has the military been for the last few years. Hell a couple of years ago you could go to
Area 51, and not only could you see the buildings and runways, but it would give you the building numbers, the title of the building, and how long the runway, or should I say runways are including the run-off, the engine run area, roads dissapearing into mountains, etc. I would like to think that the military is not going to let you see anything they dont want you to see. As far as the maps and the legends, you can get that stuff out of book atlas's.

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Originally posted by SUNLINER81:
How is anyone really going to limit the internet?
Respectfully, SUNLINER81

Doesn't that aready happen in places like China, Iran, etc.?

It is so very hard to limit or restrict progress and knowledge. If you feel technology can or will be used against you, you plan accordingly. When man first learned to fly, it was quickly recognized the advantages of it…good and bad. Then came space exploration followed by communication satellites and then photography from space and now there is real-time imagery. You can’t limit this progression that is constantly being improved upon. You must respect it and learn about it and plan. Never think for a moment that because the USA has a technology that is eye-watering, others don’t have it too…or soon will have. Often times our adversaries know as much or more about our advancements as those who are making them. If you doubt what I say, read Aviation Week sometime. During the early days of the flight testing of the F-22, Av-Week posted articles about the testing results that was limited information to members of the cleared test team!! How they got their info and photo’s were always a topic of discussion and were the root of many of a joke inside the test circles. Often said…I need the results of the last weeks flight testing…Where is the latest copy of Av-Week!!

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Originally posted by 67NOV:

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Originally posted by SUNLINER81:
How is anyone really going to limit the internet?
Respectfully, SUNLINER81

Doesn't that aready happen in places like China, Iran, etc.?

So you're saying we should become like them in the name of security?

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Originally posted by SgtBroomfield:
We Can See Them And They Can See Us.

Lets Give Them A Lot To Look At.

We could give them the address and web site of Spitzer's $1000/hr hooker...that should give them something to look at...