Is Twitter A Threat To National Security?

For The National Security And Social Media Communities, A Delicate Relationship Persists -- Washington Post

Is Twitter a threat to national security?

Over the past two weeks, a National Security Council staffer was fired for tweeting anonymous personal attacks on colleagues; a former high-ranking U.S. intelligence official had his private conversations published on Twitter by an activist who overheard him on a train; and hackers from the Syrian Electronic Army redirected a pair of tweets from President Obama’s account to YouTube.

The incidents — perhaps more embarrassing than damaging — served to underscore the uneasy relationship between the national security community and social media. At the White House and the National Security Council, most staffers are not permitted to access Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites from their office computers or government-issued mobile phones.

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My Comment: We live in a free society .... so yes .... information and news is freely disseminated and some of it may compromise national security .... but that is the price to pay for living in a free society.