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Google Pulls Map Images At Pentagon's Request
Stony Stevenson alerts us to a little mixup in which a Google Street View crew requested and was granted access to a US military base. Images from inside the base (which was not identified in press reports) showed up online, and the Pentagon requested that they be pulled. Google complied within 24 hours. The military has now issued a blanket order to deny such photography requests in the future; for its part Google says the filming crew should never have asked.
This obviously makes Google evil.. "Don't be evil!" "Don't be evil!" "Don't be evil!"
This is not the ominous-looking black surveillance van you are looking for.
I lived on a military base for 4 years and was amazed that while I had to wait in line to enter the base showing proper ID (either look at my ID card or see the sticker on my car window), pizza and delivery trucks would drive on and off with no trouble. Any fool could drive a car onto the base full of explosives with a pizza sign on it and nobody would stop them. And the security itself was a joke too. During the day I used to drive on with my long hair, beard, and earring, and they would salute me as I drove past because my car had an officer sticker on it, no ID check. Only at night did they check ID's. And if you really wanted to get on base at night all you had to do was walk to one of the closed gates and climb over, or walk into the woods and find a tree that had fallen onto the fence or bloody walk down to the back bay where the fence ends at the water and walk around it. Hopefully security has improved since 9/11.
In support of Google's latest new product, the images have been moved to googlespy. com
What do you know, the hippies had it right after all.
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Perhaps it wasn't the best choice to start off at Area-51. That place doesn't exist after all....
Ron Gage - Westland, MI
If they had planned this out they could have had low security installations with signs saying "nuclear arsenal this way". High security installations could have been made to look like training camps. Alternatively they could have laid traps, with signs saying "would the last one out of the missile store please turn off the light", then had a heavy armed presence at all times.
Somebody please mod parent (-1, Ann Coulter).
Because the general is in charge of a lot of important shit. You, not so much.