Thanks to Google's powerful satellite-view map app, we have access to spectacular detailed views of just about anywhere in the world (apart from North Korea and other restricted areas where killjoy governments have decided that they'd rather not have the whole world peeping). Google Earth has essentially granted worldwide access to the kind of perspective on the world that just 20 years ago was reserved for intelligence agenciesand governments. But a tool of such immense power has inevitably been appropriated for nefarious purposes. There have been several murder cases where the victims' homes or neighbourhoods were scoped out on Google Earth before attacks, most infamously in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, where it was found that the terrorists used Google Earth to plan the attacks. Several years ago, thieves in the UK used Google Earth to find out which churches had lead roofs, so that they could then steal the valuable metal and sell it on the lucrative metals market.
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I'm a writer-editor hybrid whose writings on video games, technology and movies can be found across the internet. I've even ventured into the realm of current affairs on occasion but, unable to face reality, have retreated into expatiating on things on screens instead.