If they want to worry about security threats, they should start with Congress.
]]>Some of it is probably the difference between the original design and what actually got built, but the local bridge that the stupid machine was telling my brother to turn on, has been there for 40 years.
]]>You have the responsibility of protecting your own data in most cases, and must explicitly tell those you deal with that you don’t want the information released, to protect it. This isn’t something that Google has done, this is something that governments on all levels have allowed to happen.
Everyone creates public records literally from birth to death, because certificates of both are public records. If you buy property, that is a public record. If you are arrested, that is a public record. If you have a professional or business license of any kind, that is a public record.
The only difference is that today many of those records are accessible via the Internet, rather than having to go to a local government office.
If someone was really interested they could have always found out.
A big dog is the best immediate solution, but people need to start paying attention to the agreements they sign and start opting out of allowing the utilities and financial institutions to release their information.
]]>So maybe we’re trying for Soviet-style maps anyhow, though in this case the only people confused by the maps are German tourists to the Death Valley area who regularly get yanked out of there while complaining, “but my GPS showed a road here!”. Heh.
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]]>This continued past the break-up of the Soviet Union.
You have to wonder how some of these people survived childhood, with all of the “monsters” under their beds, and in the closets.
]]>– Badtux the Sovok Penguin
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]]>I don’t worry about street view locally, because they have the addresses all screwed up. They must have used their own map, which is also off by at least a block on the numbering in most places, and half the time they have the odd-even numbers switched.
The GPS directions in the local rental cars will get you lost, arrested, or, in at least one case, killed if you follow them, because they tell you to turn in the middle of a bridge.
]]>this was the first i heard of the aerial photos flap. google street view strikes me as more of problem than the aerial views.
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