Comment by justsomehnguy

Do we play 'naive' football here?

You may conjure any statements you can, but something can be only hidden if there is a way to keep it hidden. Before the IT and the consumer technology revolution that would have been required physically visiting the locations and making photos (and before ~2000 - making them on a film) of the infrastructure elements.

Now you can obtain pretty recent (no more than 6-8 years old for the most part, usually much newer) photos of almost anything in the world (bar Germany, China and some "not interesting" for the great powers countries) just from your chair, wherever it can be.

So yes, some aspects of that information is still classified or restricted, but that's... Polichinelle secret. Everybody (who cares, of course) knows what is there, yet the suits can harass and even jail you if you somehow trespass the invisible blurry line between their negligence and their obedience to the procedure.