Mobile Ministry Magazine

As much as yesterday's post was about what could be the future of engaging with one another, there's also the present reality that not everything is so clear cut and easy to deal with. Most definitely there are pirates, spammers, bots, trojans, and numerous other entities on this world wide web that has made it just as dangerous as it is adventurous. Check out this snippet from the piece titled Loki's Net:

Social media like Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, GovLoop, and many others are very attractive venues for CNE by our adversaries because they are easily accessible, target-rich environments that can be exploited with little to no risk under cover of anonymity.

...According to a recent study conducted for one of the U.S. Armed Services, 60% of the service members involved in the study have posted enough information on MySpace to make themselves vulnerable to adversary targeting. And these weren’t only young recruits making bad Operations Security (OPSEC) decisions. The 60% group included officers and enlisted troops from Intelligence and Security postings as well as other sensitive positions posting such things as units they have deployed with, new duty stations, personal medical data, job duties, information about training, and pictures of themselves at deployed locations...

Read the rest of Loki's Net at O'Reilly Radar.

Nevertheless, knowing and being aware of how and how much you connect with one another online helps you be aware of potential issues, and from there, you can make contingency plans for if you do encounter anything of dire consequence.

Labels: government, innovation, privacy, social networking, tech