Geographic information is required in many everyday operations. Vehicles and merchandise providers require geographic information. For finding positions where they should deliver their merchandise. And geographic data is also required to prevent theft. The knowledge. Where the merchandise travels. Makes deliveries safe and fast. All transportation requires geographic information. When they need to find an address.
We all share some kind of geographic information. That information is involved in images. That we share on Google or on some other platforms. Public information that should protect critical objects can also be used to destroy those objects. Geographic information of people. It can help rescue crews to find them. Or it can help bad boys find them. Same way. Some gifts involve GPS. It can involve information that guides assassins to an address. And the same GPS can also make it possible. To prevent thieves. To steal those things.
Knowledge of vital points of infrastructure. Makes it possible to harm that infrastructure.
Geographic data. It can involve two types of data. The data where the warehouse is. And data where the system finds certain merchandise. The use of the GPS systems. To follow deliveries is a very nice thing. That denies thieves from stealing that merchandise. But when we think about things like geographic information in warfare.
We must realize. That knowledge of the location of some target. Also means it's possible to strike that target. When somebody sends you a new tablet or mobile telephone for free, try to remember a golden rule. There are no free lunches. A free mobile telephone that uses GPS to prevent thieves. From stealing it. Can also tell your location to hostile actors.
But there is a problem with geographic information. Geographic information is also required for military operations. The smart bomb that uses the GPS guidance kit must know only the GPS coordinates where it should strike. This means that the same GPS data that helps repair crews find some transformers. Helps the GPS-guided weapon. To find those targets. There are two ways to attack.
Against data infrastructure. One is a cyber attack. But another is a physical attack against the data center. The bunker-buster weapons like massive ordnance penetrator (MOP) can destroy data centers as well as destroy other bunkers. This is one threat. In full-scale warfare.
The geographic information is one of the things. That we must consider. There are many other things. Than governmental actors who might want to get knowledge. Of the locations of certain transportation. The geographic information. That can be connected. To some other public or non-public data. Can tell things. That threat is even a national security threat.
We must realize. That knowledge of the water lines. Or electric lines that transport water or data to military bases are easy to cut. In full-scale warfare. That can be done by using an earthquake bomb. Or the saboteur can simply dig a hole in the ground and then cut those lines. Then the saboteur can say that “this was an accident”. The knowledge that is meant to protect electric and data cables can help an attacker. To harm that mission-critical infrastructure.
There are many ways to harm and cut those lines. And they are supporting. The critical infrastructure. Knowledge of the location means. The attacker can physically harm the object. Wrong geographic information in the wrong hands makes it possible to kidnap people. But the same system can also help rescue crews to find accident victims. This is one of the ways. We can think about the geographic information.
The use of information makes information harmful or good. There are many public databases that can involve very interesting information. If we connect those databases. That can give information that should not be shared. When we think about companies, companies should know where their workers are. The geographic location is important. If we think about people like police officers. That knowledge makes their missions safer. But in the wrong hands, that data can cause destruction.

















