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Spy Chief Hints At Limits On Satellite Photos
An anonymous reader writes "Vice Adm. Robert Murrett, director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, says that the increasing availability of commercial satellite photos may require the government to restrict distribution. 'I could certainly foresee circumstances in which we would not want imagery to be openly disseminated of a sensitive site of any type, whether it is here or overseas,' he said. This would include imagery on Web sites such as Google Earth, because the companies that supply the photos get help from the NGIA with launches." I had never heard of this particular intelligence agency. During the early months of the invasion of Afghanistan they bought up all satellite imagery over that country, worldwide, in a tactic later dubbed "checkbook shutter control."
just so you know, you've got a typo in there
I think he actually means NIGA - the intelligence agency from the ghetto.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
Have you ever tried this near military locations? And what kind of sentence did you get?
nga plz.
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Ummmm, you said it's a "suspicious cloud" over a "chemical plant"? You ever stop to think that it could be "smoke"? That's what it looks like to me.
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Don't forget CTU and "Division"!
Look out, they'll be after you because you haxxored them! Obscurity is security, and you didn't respect their securitah!
1998's not old
Get back in your wheelchair you fossil! That's almost a whole friggin decade ago!
remind anyone of anything *cough cough* DRM *cough cough* copy protection *cough*
Do you need some Sucrets? Maybe you should have called-in sick to Slashdot today.
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You know you're headed for disaster when your only consolation is being better than the English.
Software patents delenda est.
"The current admin does everything, seriously, everything
wrong, which creates long term damage.
You can predict what their response will be to any
situation: whatever will create damage will be the choice.
The list is long. Katrina is a good example."
If the current adminstration was able to cause Katrina, then perhaps that tinfoil hat isn't going to be enough.....
-Styopa
He's just allergic to BS.
Even better: Paint 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 on the roof of your house. Build a large structure/plant trees/mow grass/make crop circle with the same information...
Yeah, your right. We regularly move our building around about every six months just to confuse the terrorists.
Nothing to it - all you need is a 12m tracking dish capable of keeping up with a Low Earth Orbit Satellite on a circa. 90 minute orbit, hardware capable of handling the huge bandwidth required (a single QuickBird scene of about 272 km^2 runs to gigabytes, then you can hack into the satellite to persuade it to unload the raw data from the on-board solid-state memory to your PC which knows how to process it into system-corrected data and then...
I have one of those at work, but they won't let me play with it.
!#@%*)anks for hanging up the phone, dear.
and "in fact", (US government) nature abhors a factuum
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There's a much easier and obvious way to save the lives of US soldiers, but unfortunately I only want to provide that information on a need-to-know basis.
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