Posted on 11/18/2010 3:12:33 AM PST by markomalley
The Air Force is warning its troops to be careful when using Facebook and other popular networking sites because some new features could show the enemy exactly where U.S. forces are located in war zones.
In a warning issued on its internal website earlier this month, the Air Force said that "careless use of these services by airmen can have devastating operations security and privacy implications." The message was also sent to senior commanders, who were asked to get the word out to their forces.
The sites are a concern for U.S military services, which have 95,000 troops in Afghanistan and roughly 50,000 in Iraq. The Army, which provides the bulk of the battlefield forces, said it intends to circulate a similar warning about location services to key personnel next week.
The applications, which are offered by a variety of services including Facebook, Foursquare, Gowalla and Loopt, can identify a person's location, even pinpoint it on a map.
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Facebook? Hell, just ban it. On ops they EMCON’d our transistor radios.
They did ban it, and then for some strange reason they un-banned it, along with sites like Youtube. But no thumb drives, please.
This is so silly. They should block access. Who knows what traitors may be among the troops... Leaving up to individuals is too risky, I think.
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