Microsoft Live Search gets too close for comfort

Information Week points out that the U.S. Navy is disturbed about an aerial available on Microsoft’s Live Search site that shows in detail the propeller on a submarine:

The picture reveals the seven-bladed prop in remarkable detail. The image was apparently captured while the boomer was in dry dock at the Navy’s base in Bangor, Wash.

If would seem to me, that if the submarine was that sensitive to inquiring minds, that a simple canvas over the top of the dock or some other type of cover would have solved the issue of preventing the submarine from being photographed.