USMC Kills Social Networks, Bolsters Security
Military organizations consider social networking sites’ core features (and persistent vulnerabilities) to be an unacceptable risk:
“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.”
- Marines Ban Twitter, MySpace, Facebook
by Noah Shachtman for Wired.com
What level of risk have you decided to bear by frequenting social networking sites?
… and have you considered the wide range of possible reprecussions?
