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by A few years ago, deployed military soldiers were blocked from publishing blogs as a means of cutting down on OPSEC violations from spurious posting. Now, an initiative by the Air Force's new Cyber Command is blocking all content with the text "blog" in the URL, effectively expanding on the publishing ban by adding a blanket restriction for servicemen to read the content. Currently, the network filters exist only with the Air Force's domain. Is such a draconian move really necessary to accomplish the mission?
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Blocking URL's with the word "blog" in it seems a particularly lame way to go about an official ban.
Won't the sneak just get sneakier by using anonymous proxy services and other workarounds, or have they blocked these also?
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Information Campaign by PowerPointSamurai :: NR7 :: on 02 March 2008
I've heard it said a million times--our soldiers are our best spokespeople. They have the trust of the American people, whereas some will be more skeptical of higher level official spokespeople. Shutting down the others only feeds the suspicion and this measure is complete crap. It demonstrates an innate lack of trust between the USAF and their people--effectively saying they can't trust their people.
All this does is clamp down on your best, most enthusiastic people, who would say good things about your organization and would reflect credit upon the US military. The dirtbags always have and always will express their disgruntled one-sided stories no matter what measures are in place because they have nothing to lose. That continues after discharge. There are plenty of chaptered/court martialed (kicked out) guys that run around telling their story all the time. Add to this a lot of bogus opportunists who can play the part (but were never part of the military) and you really have a problem with your civil-military relations.
The most precious asset the US military has is the sons and daughters of this country, and the people who loan them to us expect some oversight into that. We need to encourage people to write blogs, and leaders need to make sure they are educated on OPSEC to facilitate that. What's the USAF going to do next, ban letters and email? The information is out there, and they, the ones who arrogated themselves to "Cyber command", should know that.