Google Earth and "Collateral Damage"

netbuzz writes "British news reports say insurgents are using Google Earth to pinpoint vulnerable targets within bases in Iraq. Could Google be doing more to prevent this? Should they be doing more? They certainly could explain more."

Comments

Nintendo and iRobot are next!

[EvilGoodGuy]

Just wait until they discover they can control their Roomba with a Wiimote. Goodbye suicide bombings, hello Roomba bombings! Down with Nintendo, down with iRobot!

Could Google be doing more?

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

Yes.

They could add arrows: "This way to the Secret Bunker."

At war

[Per Abrahamsen]

> We aren't at war, we've invaded some random country for no good reason.

You know, invading some random country is one of the two main causes of getting "at war". The other is being invaded by some random country.

Re:Yes Let's shut down the internet

[delinear]

I vote for fog of war - anything beyond a few hundred feet of your current location is lost to the fog. As long as one side doesn't find the disable fog cheat it should all work out quite well.

Re:Yes Let's shut down the internet

[Don_dumb]

That doesn't go far enough, I believe that the July 7th bombers may well have used maps such as these - http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tube/maps/ which I might add are openly available to the public in pamphlets, the back of diaries, they are even posted on the walls of the city!

How many people have to die before we realise that the Ordinance Survey and London street mapping should be stopped. Fortunately those saintly graffiti artists are already working on censoring maps in public places.