Capitalism actually prefers to control the markets.

See my reply downstream.

Security by obscurity is an illusion. Bad actors, especially state actors, will have no problem getting this data. We should make this data public so it's expected to be public, and then planners will take the risks more seriously.

Do you think James Bond-style special agents are doing the state actor operations, like in the movies?

It doesn't work like that. The vast majority of the time it's regular stupid people that are doing the heavy lifting (often unwittingly) for state actor operations.

So yes, security by obscurity works. It makes the state actor's job that much harder.

Bad actors, especially state actors, will have no problem getting this data.

Everything that costs will cost to the degree that it costs. Putting the chocolate milk on the top shelf is enough to encourage children to buy less chocolate milk. The data you're talking about? The place I work at is the one doing the hard boots on the ground labor for aerial data, and from that perspective nothing is easy or free.

One can make great arguments about why people should have access to data notwithstanding all risks, but surely not that security by obscurity is mere illusion.

Easier access does lower the bar for amateurs and increase the risk of damage but these are two separate things.

GP said architects should anticipate bad actors and i'd add a "no matter their size". Putting the chokolate milk high up the shelf helps as long as children are small and dumb. Security by too-high-cost only effects poor, lone and unimaginative actors.

So it's time to release our internal aerial photography, because cost only affects poor actors? Like no, cost is cost to the degree it costs.

I'm in awe of the fact that two sensors can be wrong AND agree with each other.

Those being analog sensors measuring analog, physical things, they will never exactly agree with each other; so there's a plausibility window. As long as the fault causes the sensors to remain within said window they will be considered as valid.

It is just like having range of values considered to be equal for floating point numbers.

and magically, the sneakers are also still there.

You mean DoubleClick. It's clear which business model took over after the merger.

I keep forgetting that they bought DoubleClick. Google has been a surveillance company for so long now that I've kind of forgotten there was ever a Before Times.

Doubleclick actually took over Google.

Perhaps not literally, as in on the financial books.

But certainly in leadership "values".

Time isn't free.

If only.

Lenovo loves to throw everything at the wall and see what sticks.

I'm glad their rootkit idea didn't stick.

Early air cooled leafs aren't doing anyone any favors when talking about battery aging.

You're next.