Liz Gannes

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Google Street View Driver Goes on a Hit-and-Run Spree in Indonesia

Earlier this week in Indonesia, a driver of one of Google’s Street View cars, which travel the world capturing current pictures of their surroundings for the company’s mapping services, hit two minivans and a truck before being detained by police, the AFP reported. The man was apparently afraid of the cost of the first incident, and fled. Pictures of the banged-up Google-branded Subaru can be found here.

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I think the NSA has a job to do and we need the NSA. But as (physicist) Robert Oppenheimer said, “When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and argue about what to do about it only after you’ve had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.”

— Phil Zimmerman, PGP inventor and Silent Circle co-founder, in an interview with Om Malik