Google Street View criticised for 'showing images of secret SAS headquarters' - Update

I found my house one night getting high at a friends and when we came down the street towards my house, I'm in the front yard weedeating around my mailbox! Holy shit, if I would have been paying attention I could have exposed myself.LOL

it could be a mocdonalds...

I doubt this is the real headquarters. It's probably one of many decoy-facilities. They only raised a stink so as not to raise suspicion.

because the giant 'British SAS' sign on top of the front door isn't enough of a clue for anyone walking by to figure out this might be a government building....

If they didn't say anything, then It would still be a secret. People would have just thought it was another army base

They might get into the secret refrigerator and steal the secret submarine sandwich.

If it's so secret, then how can some random guy in a car photograph the entrance?

Hey they put my top secret home on there to. Who do I sue to get it removed?

We are putting in airplane scanners while simultaneously making street views of our world public. I get too mixed up to know which is good and which isn't.

You think they would just keep their secret bases underground, with running water, roads, lighting and potentially light traffic...would you be surprised.

I'm sure that terrorist organizations already know where all the secret headquarters are, even long before Google came along.

It's not that easy to hide a cluster of buildings employing thousands of people.

Think about it- if Google could find out where the headquarters were and label it "SAS" so easily- without even trying to find it- how hard do you think it is for Al-quedia?

Heck, just pay the janitor a thousand bucks and he'll draw floorplans.

Besides, terrorist organizations, by definition, want to invoke terror. If they were going to attack the UK, they would not go after secret military and intelligence installations.

That would be playing fair.

They would go after big ben, canary wharf, the london eye- things big and obvious that fill people with national pride and would be painful to the populace when they are missing.

Mixed feelings. Keeping a picture up out of stubbornness when it could really be a security issue seems a bit selfish and narrow-minded. However, why are the SAS headquarters off of a public road that anyone driving by/through the country might have access to? That's... not very well-hidden. I think, as a base that relies upon utmost secrecy, they should make an effort to hide their goods a bit better.

Brilliant - so while we have these spybot cars around our streets, no-ones doing a thing to improve 'community' safety cos the camera apparently does it all for us.
I'ld rather have rapport & trust with my fellow street users than bigbro styley bandwagons anyday...

Hey, I am living incognito and they show mine, so lighten up SAS