Canadian soldiers: "Be careful who you are poking, al-Qaeda may be watching. The Canadian
military is warning soldiers not to post personal information on social
networking sites such as Facebook, due to security concerns."
Canadian soldiers: "Be careful who you are poking, al-Qaeda may be watching. The Canadian
military is warning soldiers not to post personal information on social
networking sites such as Facebook, due to security concerns."
That's the word from the National Post, which piggybacks off of an internal memo circulating within the Canadian Forces. "This may seem overdramatic," the advisory reads. But "the information can be used to
target members for further exploitation. It also opens the door for
your families and friends to become potential targets as well."
A while back, the U.S. Department of Defense banned many popular social networking sites from its networks. But that prohibition keyed off of bandwidth concerns, and worries that troops might inadvertently leak military secrets. This alleged threat that Facebook poses to troops' families -- that's a new one, to me.
Canadian Forces has its own, official Facebook group, by the way, with 8,467 members.
UPDATE: Are you kidding me? Brig. Gen. Peter Atkinson says "80 per cent" of enemy "battle damage assessment[s]" are from online sources like Facebook. As Nemo points out, if that's true -- and that's a big, cosmically-unlikely if -- we should all being doing cartwheels.
[If] “insurgents” really are getting the vast majority of their “intelligence” from open internet sources, that’s athat’s a good thing, because it means they are either devoting
too few, or too inept, resources to other, more traditional - and
generally more rewarding - avenues of intelligence collection. Every
man-hour spent perusing MySpace comments is a man-hour not
spent carefully observing a Canadian Forces base, or bribing local
staff to steal flash drives, or listening to a scanner and monitoring
radio traffic. Every insurgent who reads English (or French), and who
is scouring forums and newsgroups for information is one that isn’t
digging through soldiers’ garbage for interesting papers.
(High five: JQ)
ALSO:
* Army: Wikis Too Risky
* U.S. Starting to Wake Up to Media War?
* AQI Leaders: Breaking Smokers' Fingers Backfiring
* Pentagon Plots Sim Iraq for Propaganda Tests
* Pentagon Panel: U.S. Must Sell 'Good News'
* Top General: Let Soldiers Blog
* Rummy Resurfaces, Calls for U.S. Propaganda Agency
* In Iraq, Psyops Team Plays on Iran Fears, Soccer Love
* How Technology Almost Lost the War
* Targeting the Jihadist Noise Machine
* 18 Months Later, Charges for Jailed Journo in Iraq
* U.S. Enlists Arab Bloggers for Info War
* Some of Her Best Friends Are Terrorists
* Inside Al-Qaeda's "Intranet"
* Intel Director Launches Qaeda Leak Probe
* Ex-Spies Blast Qaeda Breach
* Al-Qaeda "Intranet" Goes Dark After Leak
* Bloggers vs. Terrorists?
* Army Gearing Up for Info War (Finally)
* Osama: Back in Black
* Al-Qaeda Channels Pixar
* Inside the Insurgent Noise Machine
* Terrorists Keep Blogs, Too
* Al-Qaeda Ramps up Propaganda Push
* Army Bullies Blogger, Invades YouTube
* Al-Qaeda Propaganda at New High
* British Military Gags Blogs
* Army Audit: Official Sites, Not Blogs, are Security Threat
* Military Security Threat: Bogus Bomb-Zapper's Bogus Countermeasure
* Military Hypes, Bans YouTube
* Petraeus Hearts Milblogs
* No More YouTube, MySpace for U.S. Troops
* Milblogs Boost War Effort
* Pentagon Whispers; Milbloggers Zip Their Lips
* Clarifying the Blog Rule Clarification
* Army to Bloggers: We Won't Bust You. Promise.
* Army's Blog Rebuttal
* Stop Those Leaks!
* Strategic Minds Debate Milblog Crackdown
* Milblog Bust: AP Gets Snowed
* Army: Milblogging is "Therapy," Media is "Threat"
* Urban Legend Led to Army Blog-Bust?
* New Army Rules Could Kill G.I. Blogs (Maybe E-mail, Too)
* Reporters = Foreign Spies?
* Army's Info-Cop Speaks
Source: http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/02/facebook-threat.html
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