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Friday, May 12, 2006



Google Earth: Threat to security of the nation ?

The day Google Earth was lauched, it created huge uproars from various nations. All their defense establishment were visible to every human who has access to the Internet. Even our president, His Excellency A.P.J. Abul Kalam consider it as severe security risk.

To make sure that Google provide enough details about military establishment of India, I tried Google Earth. I searched for INS Virat and I was immediately taken to this view. The picture is so clear that I can even notice where the containers are kept.
What I noticed really intrigued me.The high security-risk areas including airports, army cantonments and Rashtrapati Bhawan are updated weekly. It is possible that Pakistan Army is using Google’s satellite to track daily movement of Indian army. Earlier, this technology was available to few high profile defense officials of superpowers and now, it is available to every netizen. The google has made the world really flat.

Now, a jehadi sitting in Lahore could have access over bird-eye views of various institutions similar to IIS. We can have more attacks just like on IIS in Bangalore. The danger is looming in front of us and we’ve no solution for it. We can only make our borders more secure and prevent any possible infiltration, increase espionage and try to hack into computers of terrorists. Possibly, this might be the only solution.

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