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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."

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  1. penis! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    now that's what i'm talking 'bout...

  2. Re:So what about the other 45 locations? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    So im sitting in the break room reading my baby book trying to eat my food with out throwing it back up and the workers from the sweatshop came in and start heating their food. No Big Deal, they have to eat too.

    BUT then I start to smell this horrible smell......what ever they are cooking smells so bad! OMG!! It smelled like Dirty Nasty Stank Vagina. Like a vagina that hasnt been washed with soap in 2 weeks. And now im starting to gag and my food is threating to come back up, which I know will not be pretty.

    So now my lunch is runied cause one of the Asians decided to eat dirty vagina for lunch!

    WTF? How can anyone even eat something that smells like that? I know all those guys bring left overs from dinner for lunch the next day and I know their wives cook them authentic Asian food and I love asian food. BUT WTH! Serioulsly what do they cook with to make their food smell like Vagina?

  3. Re:Blurry, no; pixelated hell yes - Maps.Live link by michaelhood · · Score: 0, Troll

    More visible on a maps.live.com shot taken from a plane.

  4. Re:Blurry, no; pixelated hell yes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    cheney has nothing to do with it you stupid fuck. maybe if you learn to shut your mouth a pay attention more you would have learned that. oh, sorry, this is slashdot. the site where every bitch with an associates degree or an a+ thinks that they know everything under the sun.