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Re: is google earth safe to install?

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On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 03:31:22AM -0500, rlharris@oplink.net wrote:
> On Tue, September 1, 2015 12:41 am, rlharris@oplink.net wrote:
> > To facilitate our search for property and discussion over the telephone
> > of various properties, my client wishes me to install google earth.
> >
> > I see that Debian has a google earth package.
> >
> > In view of our recent discussion "laptop protection in an office
> > network", I am curious as to what danger of compromise, if any, is
> > incurred by the installation of google earth.
> 
> Answering my own question:  After installing the Debian package (which is
> a script to download google earth and make of it a Debian package) I would
> have proceded except for the fact that (according to the Debian README
> file, it currently works only on x86 packages, because google earth is an
> i386 binary.  But my laptop is an amd64.  And I am unwilling to run
> proprietary google code on my desktop machine.

In that case, consider "marble", which provides a similar "virtual
globe" and is LGPL 2.1+ licensed.

> 
> RLH
> 
> 
> 
> 

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is google earth safe to install? rlharris@oplink.net - 2015-09-01 07:50 +0200
  Re: is google earth safe to install? rlharris@oplink.net - 2015-09-01 10:40 +0200
    Re: is google earth safe to install? Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2015-09-01 16:50 +0200
      Re: is google earth safe to install? rlharris@oplink.net - 2015-09-01 20:20 +0200
        Re: is google earth safe to install? Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se> - 2015-09-01 20:50 +0200
        Re: is google earth safe to install? Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> - 2015-09-01 21:50 +0200
          Re: is google earth safe to install? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2015-09-01 22:00 +0200
            Re: is google earth safe to install? Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2015-09-02 01:00 +0200
              Re: is google earth safe to install? rlharris@oplink.net - 2015-09-02 01:30 +0200
                Re: is google earth safe to install? Gary Roach <garyroach@verizon.net> - 2015-09-02 03:10 +0200
                Re: is google earth safe to install? Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI <renaud@olgiati-in-paraguay.org> - 2015-09-02 10:00 +0200
                Re: is google earth safe to install? Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2015-09-02 15:40 +0200
                Re: is google earth safe to install? Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se> - 2015-09-02 11:10 +0200
              Re: is google earth safe to install? Stuart Longland <stuartl@longlandclan.yi.org> - 2015-09-03 23:10 +0200
                Re: is google earth safe to install? Martin Read <zen75502@zen.co.uk> - 2015-09-03 23:40 +0200
                Re: is google earth safe to install? Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2015-09-05 08:50 +0200
  Re: is google earth safe to install? Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> - 2015-09-01 10:50 +0200
    Re: is google earth safe to install? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2015-09-01 15:10 +0200
      Re: is google earth safe to install? Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> - 2015-09-01 16:50 +0200

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