CNN: After ISIS Twitter threat, military families rethink online lives
WNU Editor: I have a good friend who works for Canada's RCMP .... when I asked him a few months ago on why he was not on Facebook .... he told me that it was against department policy. As he told me .... no point in making it easy for criminals to find out where you live, and to let them know who is important to you. This is actually becoming a growing trend ..... French law enforcement were told after the Paris attacks last week the same thing .... remove your social media presence .... Source: Terror cells activated in France, police told to remove social media presence (CNN). U.S. military have not been told to eliminate their social media presence .... but it will not surprise me if this does become the case if credible threats against U.S. personnel and their families become known .... especially if social media is being used to track them.
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It is starting to dawn on some that militaries exist to fight wars. And when doing so there will be people who will want to kill you wherever you are, however they can. There is an attitude in the West that dates back to 1945 that wars will always be easily won and always far away. A good example of this was in Viet Nam where US ground units conducted tactical communications in "the clear". The unspoken assumption was "we are going to win anyway, what are they going to do about it", well they did a lot and so are the Islamists. It can be fairly argued that this attitude extends back to DC into the highest reaches of the government with virtually everyone competing to blab the highest secrets for whatever gain. It is true the US was founded on principles of openness and freedom of speech, but if one loses the war to people who are absolutely opposed to those principles, what would be the point?
You could bounce a phone book against Facebook and look for the holes.
Even a block hole is not invisible (even when matter is not falling in)
I see a large almost insurmountable problem in making this work. But if you think it, you can do it.
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