Imagine this shocking scenario. One day in a neighbour hood not too dissimilar to yours a group of malevolent young troublemakers get hold of a camera, some postage stamps and a copy of Google maps. What do they do next? Read on..
Instead of writing letters to their pen pals about all the great places they’ve been to like kids would have in the good old days they use Google maps streetview to navigate around a city on the other side of the world. A city they have never been to.
They find strange houses like this one, the old and frail, the mentally disabled and the ridiculously wealthy. Large businesses and important places of government. Even the unfortunate are a target. Instead of learning about these places they do something shocking. They take a photo of their bottom and mail it to those addresses. They keep doing it until they run out of stamps.
How many people did they manage to traumatise? How many people’s sensibilities were shocked and shattered? All with the aid of Google street view. Is street view a valuable online tool or terrorist’ss aid I ask you.