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Debunking the Google Earth Censorship Myth
waderoush writes "There's a persistent Web meme to the effect that Google obscures sensitive or top-secret locations in Google Maps and Google Earth at the insistence of national governments. A July IT Security article promoted on Digg, 'Blurred Out: 51 Things You Aren't Allowed to See on Google Maps,' revived this notion. But the article has been widely criticized, and I did some fact-checking this week on the six Boston-area locations mentioned in the IT Security list. As it turns out, not one of the allegedly blurred locations has degraded imagery in Google Maps, as my screen shots demonstrate. My post looks into the sources of the misleading IT Security piece, and of other mistaken rumors about Google Maps."
Who should I believe? You, or my lying eyes?
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They sure blurred him out fast.
Did this guy really not look at these locations?
Maybe google knows his IP address.
http://michaelsmith.id.au
You mean it's like Slashdot, if the concussed monkeys took up drinking.
Post removed for being in violation of Patriot Act
Abandoned amusement parks are usually prime real estate for evil geniuses, their evil projects, and their hordes of henchmen. It wouldn't surprise me that certain amusement parks are pixelated given the secrecy involved in taking over the planet.
Maybe that is because the USNO contains primary frequency standards, so any attempt to take accurate photographs would result in a violation of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.
You mean it's like Slashdot, if the concussed monkeys took up drinking.
Hey! I resemble that remark.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
Finally, we know the undisclosed location Cheney is always going to!
I've always suspected it involved a handbasket.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
I tried reading the Google cache of your post, but it was blurry.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Has anyone checked to see if all the good pubs are blurry? Maybe with a touch of double-vision and a few pink elephants? Also, if blurry images are proof of national security concerns, the sheep in New Zealand must be Above Top Secret to produce some of the limitations there.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Well... i guarantee that the percentage of aircraft with "No Hijacking" signs on them that don't get highjacked would have a significant number of 9's in it, so it obviously works and works well, provided you measure the outcomes correctly.
I like conversing with non-concussed monkeys, thank you very much.
*flings some poo*
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You mean it's like Slashdot, if the concussed monkeys took up drinking.
Ook?
Puts the expression "naval gazing" in an entirely new context.
russians have many low altitudes geosynchronous satellites
Damn Reds and their lack of respect for physics!
They whose government reduces their essential liberties for temporary security, receive neither liberty nor security.
...considering his uid is HALF that of yours...
He's getting senile.
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