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Terrorists 'use Google maps to hit UK troops'

we will start to see more and more of this as technology barriers drop:
Terrorists 'use Google maps to hit UK troops'

Terrorists attacking British bases in Basra are using aerial footage displayed by the Google Earth internet tool to pinpoint their attacks, say Army intelligence sources.

Documents seized during raids on the homes of insurgents last week uncovered print-outs from photographs taken from Google.

The satellite photographs show in detail the buildings inside the bases and vulnerable areas such as tented accommodation, lavatory blocks and where lightly armoured Land Rovers are parked.

Enterprise Linux 2006--A Year Of Deals

Enterprise Linux 2006--A Year Of Deals

"...As usual, customers in Linux early adopter markets, such as government and financial services, turned out to be especially vocal this year in talking up their requirements. In an initiative known as the Open Technology Development (OTD) project, the US Defense Department asked Linux vendors Red Hat and Novell--along with OEMs, chipmakers, systems integrators, and "non-traditional" open source companies--for feedback that would help shorten the learning curve toward open source deployment within the agency."