Terrorists 'use Google maps to hit UK troops'

[Foxy Brown]

Terrorists attacking British bases in Basra are using aerial footage displayed by the Google Earth internet tool to pinpoint their attacks, say Army intelligence sources.

[Loopy]

Ouch, talk about the device being abused.

[JFC]

Watch Google's HQ become marked as helping Bush's "Axis of Evil".

[xlightox]

Wow... talk about program abuse ... Didnt the terorists use the plane simulator programs to learn to fly?

[Foxy Brown]

Within days of last week's terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C., Microsoft was at the center of a controversy because of reports that the terrorists used its popular Flight Simulator game to help plan the attacks. Recent versions of Microsoft Flight Simulator include realistic city landmarks, including the World Trade Center in New York, and sensationalistic news reports have included footage of the software simulating the pilot's view of one of last week's doomed flights. However, Microsoft says that the software could only help hone the skills of an already trained pilot and couldn't be used as the sole instruction for such an act. But the company will remove the World Trade Center from future versions of Flight Simulator in deference to the victims of the recent attack.