This Kind Of Info Makes One Rethink Use Of Google

Google maps is indeed a useful tool, but this company must be reigned in as it has been known for some time now that this technology supplied by US satellites for the most part is being used by our enemies to kill coalition soldiers. Killers and terrorists on camels with slingshots, homemade bombs, molotov cocktails with a New York Times in hand & satellite technology killing coalition soldiers with our technology, unfreakin believable ...... go figure.

During a time of war, at the least this info should be dated so as to be innacurate if not elininated entirely during these times. The inaction of google regarding this decision makes me have to seriously consider switching my blog to Wordpress and search tools for one more reason ahead of all the others I already have....

Terrorists 'use Google maps to hit UK troops'

The Daily Telegraph GMT 13/01/2007 :Terrorists attacking British bases in Basra are using aerial footage displayed by the Google Earth internet tool to pinpoint their attacks, say Army intelligence sources.

Documents seized during raids on the homes of insurgents last week uncovered print-outs from photographs taken from Google.

The satellite photographs show in detail the buildings inside the bases and vulnerable areas such as tented accommodation, lavatory blocks and where lightly armoured Land Rovers are parked.

Written on the back of one set of photographs taken of the Shatt al Arab Hotel, headquarters for the 1,000 men of the Staffordshire Regiment battle group, officers found the camp's precise longitude and latitude..full story

Filed Under US Military, Iraq War, Terrorism, Technology

Also, In an update to an earlier story blogged about yesterday regarding the "secret squirrel" pocket change transmitters being used against defense dept employees, reported by many news outlets, has been retracted by the US Defense Department according to a Canadian Newspaper today:

U.S. retracts spy coins claim

Sunday 1/14/07 The Star>com:OTTAWA – It seems there's no danger of your spare change spying on you after all.

A U.S. government defence agency has suddenly retracted its claim that Canadian coins containing tiny transmitters were planted on at least three American contractors who visited Canada.

It's the latest twist in an intriguing cash caper.

Canadians began carefully scrutinizing their loonies following the Virginia-based Defense Security Service's claim that specially doctored coins were a new tool of the trade for shadowy figures out to steal sensitive U.S. military technology.

"On at least three separate occasions between October 2005 and January 2006, cleared defence contractors' employees travelling through Canada have discovered radio frequency transmitters embedded in Canadian coins placed on their persons," said the service's annual counterintelligence report for 2006.

The document did not indicate what sort of coins were involved, and a service spokeswoman said details of the incidents were classified.

Allrighty then...one less thing to worry about I guess for the paranoid amongst us.

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