Apple Maps Accidentally Reveals Secret Military Base In Taiwan 131
redletterdave writes "After one Taiwanese newspaper snapped and printed a satellite photo of a top-secret military base from the new Maps application running on an iPhone 5, the defense ministry of Taiwan on Tuesday publicly requested Apple blur the sensitive images of the country's classified military installations. The top-secret radar base, located in the northern county of Hsinchu, contains a highly-advanced ultra-high-frequency long-range radar that military officials say can detect missiles launched as far away as the city of Xinjiang, which is located in northwest China. The radar system was obtained via U.S.-based defense group Raytheon in 2003, and is still being constructed with hopes to be completed by the end of this year. 'Regarding images taken by commercial satellites, legally we can do nothing about it,' said David Lo, the spokesman of Taiwan's defense ministry, in a statement to reporters. 'But we'll ask Apple to lower the resolution of satellite images of some confidential military establishments the way we've asked Google in the past.'"
Xinjiang (Score:5, Informative)
Slight correction, Xinjiang is a province not a city. And a very lovely part of the country to visit.
Re:Terrorists new best friend (Score:5, Informative)
I think google may have beaten them to it
According to this article, the images are even clearer in google maps
http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/9/3477836/taiwan-radar-defense-system-apple-ios-6-maps-complaint [theverge.com]
Re:Probably weren't even looking for it. (Score:4, Informative)
If Apple has images of it....you know the other side already had even higher resolution images of it long ago.....(likely with previously stolen US technology).
Re:Xinjiang (Score:4, Informative)
Re:what a reasonable way to solve a problem (Score:5, Informative)
But sir, do we surrender before or after we file the missiles?
That is a tired such a tired joke.
Of 125 major European wars since 1495, the French have fought in 50, more than Austria (47) and England (43).
Out of a total 168 battles since 387BC, they won 109, lost 49 and drawn 10.
-- Stephen Fry, QI season 6 episode 5.
Not bad for a bunch of surrender monkeys. Disclaimer: I'm a German and we were, after all, responsible for that oft mentioned surrender but we also admire courage and tenacity even in our (thankfully former) enemies. If you occupants of the Anglo Saxon cultural bubble want to call anybody a bunch of 'Surrender Mokeys' it's us Germans. We did after all surrender twice in the last century, the French only once.