On 5/13/07, Peter Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
... Personally, I like the Malaysian Government's version:The Malaysian Government has stated that it will not ask Google to censor sensitive areas in the country because it would, de facto, pinpoint which locations it deemed sensitive areas.
this is actually a tricky proposition for $governments. you'll remember that when the US bought up imaging for Afghanistan they purchased rights for the _whole country_. a recent interview with Robert Murrett at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency [0] confirmed the difficulty of censoring imagery. "Blanking out big areas for long periods by commercial or other means would cause a storm of complaint; narrowing the time/space curtain might risk giving away the very information one wishes to keep secret." i side with the "cat out of the bag" side of the argument; detailed imagery is simply no longer the domain of government nor under its control. best regards, 0. US spy chief wants 'some control' over satellite imagery http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/09/us_spychief_wants_sat_blindfold_powers/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
