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Sunday, May 16, 2010

The Pentagon No Longer Paranoid with Facebook

The Pentagon finally gave the green light on American soldiers to access networking sites. Pentagon realized, a benefit was greater than the fear of adverse effects is a web 2.0 world.
Previously, the Pentagon blocked several websites such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and YouTube for security reasons.
However, by considering a number of reasons, finally began to open blocked sites. One reason is submitted as the Department of Defense Secretary Robert Gates (66) is a means of socialization for American soldiers and to communicate with relatives.
But that does not mean anyone free access whatever site. Access to secret missions, porn sites, gambling and other deviant things remain supervised. At any firm steps will be taken if the bandwidth used exceeds the limit.
"There are two obligations. One is the ability to share information, while the other is security. We must fight for both, "said David Wennergren from the Department of Defense sepeerti detikINET quoted from Reuters, Sunday (28 / 2).
He also added that training people so they know what is allowed and what not to do on the internet, is considered more effective than blocking all social media at the soldiers working computer. (Sec / arrahmah.com)

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