Following on my theme of the month, ABC News' website contains an article on the fact that the Israeli military was recently forced to cancel a mission to arrest a number of Palestinian militants in the West Bank because one of its soldiers updated his Facebook status with sensitive military information. D'oh!
The unnamed soldier posted the following message: "On Wednesday we are cleaning out the village of Katana (nr Ramallah) – today and arrest operation, tomorrow an arrest operation and then please god, home by Thursday."
It appears that this isn't the first time Israel's military operations have been compromised by Facebooking military personnel. In 2008 a soldier was jailed for 19 days for uploading a photo to Facebook that contained sensitive imagery.
Seriously. The internet is not a vacuum. People are watching and reading what you post. There are people out there who monitor the internet: current and potential employers and colleges you or your kids may apply to. Not to mention your parents, friends, ex-lovers, and it would appear military and intelligence services worldwide. Think before you post.
Read the entire article here.
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Wow.
gosh golly gee, we is like little bugs in a rug.
FEAR THE TURTLE!
That's why Maryland won. Fucking Duke. Dammit.
Silly soldiers!
Ted Striker: My orders came through. My squadron ships out tomorrow. We're bombing the storage depots at Daiquiri at 1800 hours. We're coming in from the north, below their radar.
Elaine Dickinson: When will you be back?
Ted Striker: I can't tell you that. It's classified.
Strategic information in the sense of what you think is the right information based on non-governmental information, i.e. open source intelligence, is potentially different, if and only if, one is not subject to command authority, i.e. one is a private citizen.
In other words, if one says as a private citizen that having Israel take out Iran will trigger a Great Power confrontation, based on the use of non governmental information, then that is ok it seems to me. But note, that means that you get zero government information, or dollars. And of course, there is in reality no such thing as free speech, because people will break your bones if they don't like what you have to say.