Macbeth
Banned
+2,444|5736

The U.S. Marine Corps has banned Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and other social media sites from its networks, effective immediately.

“These internet sites in general are a proven haven for malicious actors and content and are particularly high risk due to information exposure, user generated content and targeting by adversaries,” reads a Marine Corps order, issued Monday. “The very nature of SNS [social network sites] creates a larger attack and exploitation window, exposes unnecessary information to adversaries and provides an easy conduit for information leakage that puts OPSEC [operational security], COMSEC [communications security], [and] personnel… at an elevated risk of compromise.”
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/08 … -facebook/
So what are the odds of suicide rates jumping in the Marines now?
Red Forman
Banned
+402|5550
Ban at work, not on their personal computers.
Chou
Member
+737|6941
That means our boys will be home soon!!
Ioan92
Member
+337|5873
Good job Marines!

DesertFox-
The very model of a modern major general
+796|6835|United States of America
Loose lips sink ships.
Agent_Dung_Bomb
Member
+302|6886|Salt Lake City

DesertFox- wrote:

Loose lips sink ships.
And makes those, without a 2x4 strapped to their ass, disappear. 
SEREMAKER
BABYMAKIN EXPERT √
+2,187|6718|Mountains of NC

snitches get stitches




ehhhhhhh like they care anyway ................ its porn or nothing
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Flaming_Maniac
prince of insufficient light
+2,490|6857|67.222.138.85

Red Forman wrote:

Ban at work, not on their personal computers.
As far as security it poses the same risk, if not greater on their personal comps.
SEREMAKER
BABYMAKIN EXPERT √
+2,187|6718|Mountains of NC

Flaming_Maniac wrote:

Red Forman wrote:

Ban at work, not on their personal computers.
As far as security it poses the same risk, if not greater on their personal comps.
govt only cares about govt property
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west-phoenix-az
Guns don't kill people. . . joe bidens advice does
+632|6539

SEREMAKER wrote:

govt only cares about govt property
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loubot
O' HAL naw!
+470|6728|Columbus, OH
Back to work boys
FloppY_
­
+1,010|6436|Denmark aka Automotive Hell
What is going to stop the ACTUAL terrorist/informant from leaking through proxies ?

This will only stop the unknowing ones (like the Head of MI6 beeing exposed by his wife)
­ Your thoughts, insights, and musings on this matter intrigue me
Bevo
Nah
+718|6671|Austin, Texas

SEREMAKER wrote:

Flaming_Maniac wrote:

Red Forman wrote:

Ban at work, not on their personal computers.
As far as security it poses the same risk, if not greater on their personal comps.
govt only cares about govt property
Marines are government property.

Marine's stuff is therefore government property.
SEREMAKER
BABYMAKIN EXPERT √
+2,187|6718|Mountains of NC

Bevo wrote:

SEREMAKER wrote:

Flaming_Maniac wrote:


As far as security it poses the same risk, if not greater on their personal comps.
govt only cares about govt property
Marines are government property.

Marine's stuff is therefore government property.
I am issued but never property
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mikkel
Member
+383|6751

Flaming_Maniac wrote:

Red Forman wrote:

Ban at work, not on their personal computers.
As far as security it poses the same risk, if not greater on their personal comps.
Why?
jsnipy
...
+3,276|6673|...

DesertFox- wrote:

Loose lips sink ships.
QFE
Macbeth
Banned
+2,444|5736

mikkel wrote:

Flaming_Maniac wrote:

Red Forman wrote:

Ban at work, not on their personal computers.
As far as security it poses the same risk, if not greater on their personal comps.
Why?
Because you can put software on computers that limit what goes in and out, on their personal computers the government doesn't know what is going on unless they look at it.
mikkel
Member
+383|6751

Macbeth wrote:

mikkel wrote:

Flaming_Maniac wrote:


As far as security it poses the same risk, if not greater on their personal comps.
Why?
Because you can put software on computers that limit what goes in and out, on their personal computers the government doesn't know what is going on unless they look at it.
Why would they need to? What's the risk to the government if someone gets their personal computer infected?
Flaming_Maniac
prince of insufficient light
+2,490|6857|67.222.138.85
The risk is someone gets on facebook and says "hey my unit is at x longitude and y latitude, damn it sucks out here".

I am not saying I necessarily agree with the ban, but if they're going to do it it's pretty pointless to limit it only to gov issue computers.
DonFck
Hibernator
+3,227|6782|Finland

What, /b/ is still allowed there though?
I need around tree fiddy.
Dilbert_X
The X stands for
+1,813|6256|eXtreme to the maX

DesertFox wrote:

Loose lips sink ships.
I thought it was 'Loose lips are good for morale' especially in the Navy.
Русский военный корабль, иди на хуй!
FEOS
Bellicose Yankee Air Pirate
+1,182|6561|'Murka

DesertFox- wrote:

Loose lips sink ships.
But that's not their "logic" for banning the sites.

They should state their concern is OPSEC, not network attack vectors.

Their rationale is inane.
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
― Albert Einstein

Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular
mikkel
Member
+383|6751

Flaming_Maniac wrote:

The risk is someone gets on facebook and says "hey my unit is at x longitude and y latitude, damn it sucks out here".

I am not saying I necessarily agree with the ban, but if they're going to do it it's pretty pointless to limit it only to gov issue computers.
I can see the rationale, but it seems absurd to only ban certain sites if this is a legitimate concern.
jaymz9350
Member
+54|6727

Flaming_Maniac wrote:

Red Forman wrote:

Ban at work, not on their personal computers.
As far as security it poses the same risk, if not greater on their personal comps.
Well from what I gathered it will be banned from their personal pc's if it's internet is through the gov't network, the artical never stated banned from gov't pc's but from their network.  If your on base i'm guessing your on their network not your own.
Red Forman
Banned
+402|5550

jaymz9350 wrote:

Flaming_Maniac wrote:

Red Forman wrote:

Ban at work, not on their personal computers.
As far as security it poses the same risk, if not greater on their personal comps.
Well from what I gathered it will be banned from their personal pc's if it's internet is through the gov't network, the artical never stated banned from gov't pc's but from their network.  If your on base i'm guessing your on their network not your own.
Nope.  Bases are on Time Warner, Comcast, etc.  Just like the rest of the world.  So, just on their networks.  You can't use your PC on the work network and visit facebook.  How is this greater risk?

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