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Secret Service airbrushes aerial photos
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2003-12-17

Call it the case of the missing White House. Users of Mapquest's free aerial photo database recently noticed that details of several Washington D.C. government buildings were no longer discernable in overhead images of the U.S. capital.

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Secret Service airbrushes aerial photos 2003-12-22
Anonymous
I don't know how many times I have heard this, and now I am going to say it.

"Security through obscurity IS NOT security"

Obscuring the photos doesn't do any good. It does take a highly intelligent person to figure out what the white house looks like, and where it belongs on the arial photogr...

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