I have been watching the evolution of commercial satellite pictures for a while and the quality keeps improving At the same time I wonder how much of that data is being used by those that wish to inflict bodily harm upon others.The question to be asked is how much further these companies are going to go in increasing the resolution.

I can only imagine that various governments of the world are worried about it as well. Are these commercial satellite companies aiding the enemy? Is there not oversight from the respective governments in the countries that these companies operate in.

Today I was surprised to find out that there is now ways for people to commercially access newly updated images that have been shot and indexed. I love Google Maps and the satellite function but I wonder if those cool services are not going to come back and haunt us one day. [miravi.eo.esa.int]