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Marines Ban Twitter, MySpace, Facebook – Annotated
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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.â€ÂÂ
The Marines’ ban will last a year.
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Yet many within the Pentagon’s highest ranks find value in the Web 2.0 tools.
- More evidence here that there is still very much an internal battle over social media within DoD. Much of that battle involves differing views o what 21st century warfare is all about, what is required for victory, the relative importance of winning “hearst and minds,” etc. – post by TransTracker
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The Marines say they will issue waivers to the Web 2.0 blockade, if a “mission critical need†can be proven. And they will continue to allow access to the military’s internal “SNS-like services.†But for most members of the Corps, access to the real, public social networks is now shut off for the next year.
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