Spy Chief Hints At Limits On Satellite Photos 309
An anonymous reader writes "Vice Adm. Robert Murrett, director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, says that the increasing availability of commercial satellite photos may require the government to restrict distribution. 'I could certainly foresee circumstances in which we would not want imagery to be openly disseminated of a sensitive site of any type, whether it is here or overseas,' he said. This would include imagery on Web sites such as Google Earth, because the companies that supply the photos get help from the NGIA with launches." I had never heard of this particular intelligence agency. During the early months of the invasion of Afghanistan they bought up all satellite imagery over that country, worldwide, in a tactic later dubbed "checkbook shutter control."
Re:I claim this first post for pi! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:NGA not NGIA (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Restriction on restriction (Score:5, Funny)
Re:panic? (Score:3, Funny)
Have you ever tried this near military locations? And what kind of sentence did you get?
Re:NGA not NGIA (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Suspicious Cloud (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Restriction on restriction (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Intelligence Agency? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:on control of information... (Score:2, Funny)
1998's not old
Get back in your wheelchair you fossil! That's almost a whole friggin decade ago!
Re:A Message from the Ministry of Truth (Score:5, Funny)
Do you need some Sucrets? Maybe you should have called-in sick to Slashdot today.
Re:You americans are living in intelligence hell (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Restriction on restriction (Score:4, Funny)
wrong, which creates long term damage.
You can predict what their response will be to any
situation: whatever will create damage will be the choice.
The list is long. Katrina is a good example."
If the current adminstration was able to cause Katrina, then perhaps that tinfoil hat isn't going to be enough.....
It's an allergy. (Score:4, Funny)
He's just allergic to BS.
Re:How to stop companies selling pictures of home (Score:2, Funny)
Re:panic? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Can you receive and decode this stuff yourself? (Score:3, Funny)
Nothing to it - all you need is a 12m tracking dish capable of keeping up with a Low Earth Orbit Satellite on a circa. 90 minute orbit, hardware capable of handling the huge bandwidth required (a single QuickBird scene of about 272 km^2 runs to gigabytes, then you can hack into the satellite to persuade it to unload the raw data from the on-board solid-state memory to your PC which knows how to process it into system-corrected data and then...
I have one of those at work, but they won't let me play with it.
Re:Restriction on restriction (Score:0, Funny)
Re:Restriction on restriction (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Restriction on restriction (Score:3, Funny)
There's a much easier and obvious way to save the lives of US soldiers, but unfortunately I only want to provide that information on a need-to-know basis.