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Want to see something really scary??? Here's his house: https://www.google.com/maps/place/7+Harvard+Rd,+Glen+Burnie,+MD+21060/@39.1612929,-76.600954,3a,75y,149

Want to see something really scary??? Here's his house: https://www.google.com/maps/place/7+Harvard+Rd,+Glen+Burnie,+MD+21060/@39.1612929,-76.600954,3a,75y,149h,90t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sTxLrvauce4d-rYPt3MTJAQ!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo0.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DTxLrvauce4d-rYPt3MTJAQ%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dsearch.TACTILE.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D392%26h%3D106%26yaw%3D149.19705%26pitch%3D0!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x89b7fcfe81adf90b:0xfbc37b77559c0a0e!8m2!3d39.161058!4d-76.600697!6m1!1e1 https://www.google.com/maps/place/7+Harvard+Rd,+Glen+Burnie,...

viraptor 10y ago
Whatever the reason, makes me wonder why would anyone try to do this. I mean, I know where it is - I can drive there and take a picture if I wanted to. But bluring out one particular house on a normal street is kind of like the story (I believe from one of the Sherlock Holmes books) about a guard telling the detective about all of the town, apart from one house, where he hid the body.
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- omginternets 10y ago
  You have to show yourself, and this increases the chance of people reporting a strange man taking photos of a house. Yes, it's not cryptographic-level security, but it raises the costs of an attack. In the real world, that matters. Also consider that not all attacks are spy-vs-spy. This could be a case of 'keeping honest people honest', i.e.: making it sufficiently difficult to dissuade the majority of political activists and/or protesters. This is the same reason why padlocks are a thing.
  - viraptor 10y ago
    > You have to show yourself, and this increases the chance of people reporting a strange man taking photos of a house. In the year of pokemon go players everywhere? And even then, who cares about a person with a mobile phone? We're a good decade after anyone is a "strange man" when taking photos anywhere. You don't even have to show yourself. Just order a cab and go through that street without stopping. > dissuade the majority of political activists and/or protesters I'm not convinced. The only thing the blurring did was prove that this is the interesting house, rather than a name coincidence. What is that supposed to dissuade me from if I was already going to go there and do something potentially illegal?
    - omginternets 10y ago
      It may or may not be effective, but I think this is the underlying principle.
nocarrier 10y ago
Not sure if you know this, but you can ask Google to blur a Street View address by filling out a form. I'd guess he did this himself versus any sort of conspiracy thing happening.
- lysp 10y ago
  Being a NSA contractor for his job, it is probably just standard practise to do that.
- themodelplumber 10y ago
  I gave it a shot and couldn't find the form. Before I got anywhere near it, Google Help seemed to suggest that the address to be blurred needed to be a violation of Google's policies or something.
  - detaro 10y ago
    just open Streetview and click "report a problem" at the very bottom right of the page.
ww520 10y ago
Wow. The censorship is heavy.
touristtam 10y ago
Want to see something totally common: google image search for the address: https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=4%20harvard%20road%2C%20glen%20burnie&tbs=imgo:1 https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=4%20harvard%20road%...

viraptor 10y ago

Whatever the reason, makes me wonder why would anyone try to do this. I mean, I know where it is - I can drive there and take a picture if I wanted to. But bluring out one particular house on a normal street is kind of like the story (I believe from one of the Sherlock Holmes books) about a guard telling the detective about all of the town, apart from one house, where he hid the body.

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omginternets 10y ago
You have to show yourself, and this increases the chance of people reporting a strange man taking photos of a house. Yes, it's not cryptographic-level security, but it raises the costs of an attack. In the real world, that matters. Also consider that not all attacks are spy-vs-spy. This could be a case of 'keeping honest people honest', i.e.: making it sufficiently difficult to dissuade the majority of political activists and/or protesters. This is the same reason why padlocks are a thing.
- viraptor 10y ago
  > You have to show yourself, and this increases the chance of people reporting a strange man taking photos of a house. In the year of pokemon go players everywhere? And even then, who cares about a person with a mobile phone? We're a good decade after anyone is a "strange man" when taking photos anywhere. You don't even have to show yourself. Just order a cab and go through that street without stopping. > dissuade the majority of political activists and/or protesters I'm not convinced. The only thing the blurring did was prove that this is the interesting house, rather than a name coincidence. What is that supposed to dissuade me from if I was already going to go there and do something potentially illegal?
  - omginternets 10y ago
    It may or may not be effective, but I think this is the underlying principle.

nocarrier 10y ago

Not sure if you know this, but you can ask Google to blur a Street View address by filling out a form. I'd guess he did this himself versus any sort of conspiracy thing happening.

lysp 10y ago
Being a NSA contractor for his job, it is probably just standard practise to do that.
themodelplumber 10y ago
I gave it a shot and couldn't find the form. Before I got anywhere near it, Google Help seemed to suggest that the address to be blurred needed to be a violation of Google's policies or something.
- detaro 10y ago
  just open Streetview and click "report a problem" at the very bottom right of the page.

ww520 10y ago

Wow. The censorship is heavy.

touristtam 10y ago

Want to see something totally common: google image search for the address: https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=4%20harvard%20road%2C%20glen%20burnie&tbs=imgo:1 https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=4%20harvard%20road%...