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Re: U.S. Air Force Dislikes Google Earth Capability

Barry Margolin (barmar@alum.mit.edu)
Mon, 25 Jun 2007 21:09:52 -0400

In article <telecom26.179.1@telecom-digest.org>,
Kristin Roberts, Reuters <reuters@telecom-digest.org> wrote:

> "It is huge," he said. "It's something that was a closely guarded
> secret not that long ago and now everybody's got access to it."

There's a huge difference between what Google Earth can do and what
spy satellites do. Spy satellites provide real-time views of the
earth, allowing the military or NSA to do things like to track troop
movements. Google Earth is not real-time. I'm not sure how often
they update it; as recently as about 6 months ago, when I looked up my
mother's address I saw the state of the new development from about 3
years ago (they've since brought it up to date and I can now see her
house).

-- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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