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Business Week has an article titled “Google satellite photos worry India leader“. I wonder if any politician has figured out that if a terrorist really wants to target a location, they will do their own reconnaissance and not rely on information found elsewhere. Any information on the Internet or any other publicly available source is only a starting point. I’m not a terrorist, but I can think of more than a couple things that I would want to know about a place if I was planning something… and the info that I want is not going to found except by firsthand observation. If governments want to focus on security, they should look at internal leaks and social hacking before pouncing on satellite imagery. Besides, terrorists could buy the commercial imagery if they needed to.

By the way, Google Earth is really cool. I found my house in no time and even identified the cars in my driveway. The image was taken recently, when I had borrowed my father-in-law’s car because mine was parked out at work…

Update: Wired has posted a similar (ok, maybe the same story even) as India: Google Maps Too Graphic