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The Pentagon is reviewing the use of Facebook and other social networking sites on its computers with an eye toward setting rules on how to protect against possible security risks.

Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn, meanwhile, ordered a review of both the threats and benefits of using emerging Internet capabilities, which the military has widely used for recruiting, public relations and sharing information with allies and military families, officials said Tuesday.

The Marines, in a statement, said the "very nature of social networking sites creates a larger attack and exploitation window, exposes unnecessary information to adversaries and provides an easy conduit for information leakage."

Just adding the link.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090804/ap_ ... n_internet

And the news worthy element of this is ???

They will have to review Orkut, Myspace and a whole lot of others. Also the Chinese and Japanese have their own sites, so their military experts may also become similarly occupied.
"Nonsense fills a vacuum." -- Peter's Principle

wall these social networking sites should be banned. so much of misuse waste of time when you can go out and meet people.

qdabdul wrote:wall these social networking sites should be banned. so much of misuse waste of time when you can go out and meet people.

So you don't have facebook then?

qdabdul wrote:wall these social networking sites should be banned. so much of misuse waste of time when you can go out and meet people.

Hey whadya know I met this absolute hottie, a brazilian courtesy my facebook account. She's in Dubai and we're supposed to be learning Capoeira together. So Viva FB, and never undermine the power of networking!