I’m in Your City Photographing Your Buildings

I’m sure you know what I think about the people upset over Google’s new Street View. The stupidity is not just contained at an individual level, though. The U.S. government is shaking in their booties too. They are trying to tell us that terrorists can use services such as Google’s or Microsoft’s to plot out future escapades. My question is, do they really need these tools to plan attacks? Terrorists don’t seem to have any problems getting into our country. Why is it that they can’t just run down to the gas station, buy a map, and then drive around town with a camera? Then they could send this information to their friends back home and they would have exactly the same information that is available to the rest of us. This would even allow for a more specific look at things than the current services offer. I mean, do I think that terrorists can’t use these services, or won’t consider using them? Of course not. I just think that these services aren’t giving them anything they couldn’t already get.