Report: Brass, Not Blogs, Have Loose Lips

Study Says Official Defense Dept. Web Sites Violated Security Much More Often Than Soldiers' Blogs

(AP)  An Army investigative report found that official Army Web sites violated operational security more than military bloggers.

An Army official whose name was not revealed said in government documents published in Wired magazine that the Army's 10 person Web security unit is being diverted from reviewing officials sites by attention to soldiers' personal blogs.

According to the documents — which have many portions blacked out — audits performed by the Army Web Risk Assessment Cell, based in Virginia, found at least 1,813 violations of operational security on 878 official military Web sites, and only 28 on 594 soldier blogs reviewed between January 2006 and January 2007.

The report was obtained by the Washington, D.C.-based Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), under orders from a federal district court.

The Army tightened rules on blogging by soldiers in May, requiring that they be cleared by commanders, partly because of concerns the bloggers might reveal information that would help insurgents.

It also blocked access to YouTube, MySpace and a dozen other popular Web sites.

Wired magazine estimates there are 1,200 active military blogs. The Army founded its Web risk operation in 2002 and expanded it to include blogs in 2005.

"It's clear that official Army Web sites are the real security problem, not blogs," EFF staff attorney Marcia Hofmann told Wired. "Bloggers, on the whole, have been very careful and conscientious. It's a pretty major disparity."

An Army spokesman said the military would probably not be able to comment until Monday.

By Associated Press writer Robert Weller

[rushman71]

MyIDonCBS: At least this guy (snidegrass) does sound a little bit (just by a hair) more sane than oakishpines!!! But what ever it is he is on, tell him to PASS THAT SHIIT!!!

[myidoncbs]

snidegrass, your rambling stream-of-consciousness prose begs the question: what drug(s) have you been ingesting/inhaling/imbibing?

[tnt1954]

soon the witches will be in ditches dug by
the laborers union ever so swiftly. covered
up by a cover up operation of the cement
truck drivers union. they believe in head
power. we believe in dirt power. and flour
power. long hair is more becoming on men,
this is according to the wild bill hickcock theory. of course you ascribe to the bow-wow
theory. a famous theory invented by a dog
and his owner who came from the future with
a saddlebag, granny goose potato chips and
a microchip salad around his neck. it was
due to the mistletoe that they sang a song
of sixpence. another infamous theory of
the transylvania twist. feeling his twisted
ankle, the transylvanian arose from the
dead and rode ride into a storm at the
nudist colony at the north pole. pole
dancing is when a polar bear goes polish.
daffynishion. abba-the dancing queen.
with dunce cap included, send two boxtops
from shredded wheat today and forty thousand
dollars. no problem, yes sir.

[vet_sk]

Absulutely correct. To think that us soldiers have the answers. Soldiers have less access to the big picture then the average citizen.

Last year while in Iraq that report came out that 84% of soliders thought that Iraq had something to do with 9-11.

Soldiers should be respected but not put on any pedistal of wisdom.

FYI: This article is also talking about operational security that''s on the web - not web site security.

[tnt1954]

and you thought goldringer was a dead ringer.
absolute lie, she''s a virgin and so am i,
has never had ***. you see i gotta date
with dr. no tonight, and i am impersonating her.
as a guy. see dr. no is a woman, a japanese
woman who works at a sushi restauraunt around
the corner here. she thinks she''s gonna
have *** with my wife goldringer. but this
is operation goldstinger. where i do a big
sting operation as mr. sting ray. now rays
in high school geometry are lines that reach
out from a loci or a foci. rays from the
sun are unseen, therefore we can obviously
conclude, that the sun does not exist.
and furthermore why did the little moron
jump off the empire state building with an
umbrella? because it was raining and he
did not want to get wet on the way down.
prohibition now. a.l.a. the alcoholic liberation
army demands it. rum is dum. so are dum dum
bullets. but anyway, as the casissons go rolling
along it is not hahaha in the field artillery,
it is black market bingo bango bunco.
to the ninth power, minus the logarithim
of pennsylvania six 5000. god''s phone number
next. long distance call. japanese govt.
can''t afford to call it. i call, royal flush.
now pass me the chemical toilet.

[tnt1954]

how many lies can you tell in one thousand
years? the liars contest. i know a guy
who could lie even better than a lyin lion.
he laid with the lamb. and in fact when he recited the 23rd psalm i reminded him that
you don''t wanna go by the still waters,
they are stagnant, bad water, ya wanna
go where the river runs real fast, so
you have nice fresh water. quoting the
boy scout handbook, he felt that morning
star the chief of the apaches who i am
is making more wampum as a casino opeator
underground in the sahara desert than
his compadres are making in the southern
calipornia desert. imagine that, all these
years a vast casino under the sahara desert.
why those sly riffs. lying to us again.
hogging all the craps and roulette to themselves.
card sharps. the very idea. did ya know
goldringer is gonna mate with dr. no?

[tnt1954]

i love guys who take a leak, leaking everything
to everyone, its all disinformation.
never believe anything you read, nothing of what
you hear, and never anything you see.
its'' all illusion, maya, all existence is
an hallucination. descartes was wrong.
it is done by the Evil Genie. we''re not
even real. and the whole thing is a mirage.
oasis? not real. people, not real.
you see, even strawberry fields aren''t real.
in fact, the fact of the matter is that
reality is not real. desert heat gettin
to ya? no problem, its just in your mind.
the sun? no such thing. its just a blow mind.
the mind playing tricks on you. gyp, trick
and fool, not hip, slick and cool. some like
it hot, starring marilyn monroe, tony curtis
and jack lemmon. life give ya lemonade
without sugar, switch to sugar smacks.

[myidoncbs]

xxmorosxx asked a question ("The army only has ten people working web security?") and annd2302 felt compelled to respond with this pre-programmed, dittohead remark: "Until you walk the walk you cannot talk the talk! ! !"

I have to wonder, what got annd2302 so riled up?

FYI, annd2302:

1) xxmorosxx has every right to ask a question.
2) If military service is a prerequisite to asking questions, this country is in really big trouble!
3) It is absolutely not necessary to "walk the walk" before you "talk the talk". Rational thinking beings can extrapolate from their own experience. Only sociopaths completely lack the ability to empathize with other people''s situations.

[annd2302]

xxmorosxx, what part have you had in the United States Military system? Based upon your comment, I would say you do not have even ONE day in the U.S. Military, any branch.

Until you walk the walk you cannot talk the talk! ! !

MSG Turner (Retired)

1962-1996, Field Artillery
1998-2000,

[xxmorosxx]

The army only has ten people working web security?

[docadams3]

This is no surprise.

Look at the administration''s use of leaks. Scooter Libby should have been tried for treason, not just perjury.