Topic: US military lets soldiers Tweet, blog and Facebook

[sam]

The Pentagon said soldiers will be allowed to Tweet, blog and update their Facebook pages on the US military's non-classified computer network under a new policy.

http://www.physorg.com/news186502686.html

[Rik]

Makes a change from WWII, when everything was censored.

[sam]

maybe a bit too much freedom though.. I dont want soldiers in war zones going "on sec just updating my status"

[Rik]

 

It could slow down the mistakes...

[Simon]

While stressing the principle of allowing access, the policy unveiled Friday sets limits that grant commanders authority to "defend against malicious activity" such as cyber attacks and to bar access to sites with pornography, gambling or hate-crime content.

Surely that will just make a malicious hacker more determined to crack it?