Fury as Google puts the SAS's secret base on Street View in 'very serious security breach'

[The Straight Story]

Fury as Google puts the SAS's secret base on Street View in 'very serious security breach'

Military chiefs and MPs blasted internet giant Google today after its Street View service included detailed pictures of the headquarters of the SAS.

Internet users can peer around the entrance to Credenhill, Herefordshire, which has never before appeared on maps for security reasons.

The base is even marked as 'British SAS' on the website and offers users a detailed 180 degree view of the perimeter boundary.

MPs and military top brass have demanded Google removes the pictures, claiming it makes the SAS a target for terrorist attacks.

Lib Dem Hereford MP Paul Keetch said: 'The footage is simply not acceptable during a time of perceived terrorism.

'There needs to be a certain degree of restraint shown by people like Google.

'I wouldn't want a terrorist to be inspired by these pictures and it would be appalling if any help at all was given to our enemies.

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1. I just went there in Street View and Earth and you cannot tell what

the purpose of this facility is from either of these two Google products. Granted, labeling the facility wasn't good, but apparently they removed that. Which means that the only way anyone now knows that it's the British SAS is because the people raising hell about it have revealed what it is to the world. Which makes them idiots and possibly guilty of publicizing classified information.

Edited to add, if the military chiefs and MPs had kept their mouths shut publicly and conferred with Google privately, no one would be any the wiser regarding this facility. Now, I, a Joe Sixpack sitting in my home office in Podunk, TX, now know where the British SAS is located, should I ever need that information.

[MattBaggins]

6. Anyone who really wanted to know, already knew this info.

[hunter]

2. Isn't that where the wiser neighbors were headed in "Shaun of the Dead?"

You really do need to know where these sorts of places are in a Zomby Apocalypse.

[Statistical]

3. Street view is made by a car driving around with cameras?

Is the UK so clueless to think a group of terrorists couldn't drive around in a car with camera and get same (or even more detailed information).

It isn't like it provides internal shots, blueprints, structural layouts, etc.

It is a car driving on public streets taking photos.

[Tesha]

8. People have some very odd ideas about what makes something "secure".

Here in Nashua, NH, we're the home of "Boston Center",
the big FAA facility that handles all of the en-route air
traffic control in the Northeast. It's a big operation, with
a bunch of funny radio antennae, right next to the largest
highway in town and with an old scrapped jet fighter plane
permanently parked on a pedastal next to its driveway.
You know, a nice subtle, inconspicuous place.

It used to be labeled on the appropriate exit signs from the
highway: "Exit 4, East Dunstable Road, FAA Center". But
after the Great Panic of 9/11, the powers that be realized
that if you put the name of this facility on the road signs,
why then absolutely *ANYONE* could find it including those
nasty terraists. So they removed those letters from the road
signs. Now the terrorists would *NEVER* be able to find the
FAA's Boston Center; we sure fooled them, Bwa-ha-ha!

(Well, would never find it unless they asked absolutely anyone
who lived in Nashua or unless they could still see where the
road signs had faded, so they still sorta-kinda said "FAA Center"
in ghostly silhoueted letters. But surely the terraists would never
think of either of those things!)

Now we're secure!

Tesha

[GodlessBiker]

4. "...shown by people like Google"? Google is a person?

[SidDithers]

5. Yeah, that was a WTF moment for me too...nt

Sid

[NoPasaran]

7. Soylent Green is Google!

[Javaman]

9. That Mr. Google better mind himself!

Me: excuse me, are you Mr. Google?

Mr. Google: Yes. Yes, I am.

Me: Could you give me directions to the nearest pub?

Mr. Google: Oh great! Just great! Here we go again!

Me: wha...

Mr. Google: It's always, were is this or what is that or how can I find more porn!!! Well, no more! Mr. Google says screw off! Go use the Yellow pages! Go back to the library! Or just us a fucking map!!

Me: Jeez...I was going to offer to buy you one...forget it now...

Mr. Google: What's that? Oh hey, there's a pub right around the corner!

[Flaneur]

10. I knew this was the Daily Mail just by reading the headline!

"Fury As..."

These are the guys who have my favorite ridiculous headlines: "Cannabis Boy Stabs Mum," "Heroin Mom Cooks Baby."