Blogs of War
August 18th, 2007 by Patriot
Noah Shachtman reports on the results of an internal Army audit that was recently released after the Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a FOIA lawsuit:
The audits, performed by the Army Web Risk Assessment Cell between January 2006 and January 2007, found at least 1,813 violations of operational security policy on 878 official military websites. In contrast, the 10-man, Manassas, Virginia, unit discovered 28 breaches, at most, on 594 individual blogs during the same period.
So: official sites cranked along at an average of 2.06 OPSEC violations per site. Milblogs had 0.05 violations per site. The conclusion is clear: blogs are an operational threat and need to be more closely controlled. And Soldiers deserve a huge apology. Read the rest.
Hattip to Sue.
Posted in Military Perspective
It's not usually the little guy who causes the problems, because he knows how important it is to follow the rules. It is usually the self-important ones–the official sites–that feel like they are immune from their own rules. And almost invariably, they are the ones who cause problems–for the little guy who is actually fighting the battles on the ground.
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