The Milblog Clampdown, Cont'd

Wired's Noah Shachtman reports:

For years, members of the military brass have been warning that soldiers' blogs could pose a security threat by leaking sensitive wartime information. But a series of online audits, conducted by the Army, suggests that official Defense Department websites post far more potentially-harmful [information] than blogs do.

The audits, performed by the Army Web Risk Assessment Cell between January 2006 and January 2007, found at least 1,813 violations of operational security policy on 878 official military websites. In contrast, the 10-man, Manassas, Virginia, unit discovered 28 breaches, at most, on 594 individual blogs during the same period.

Whole thing here. More here.

Comments

Warren | August 20, 2007, 10:45am | #

Stateside PR desk jockeys are 45 times more likely to compromise security than the actual soldiers who got their fannies on the line. I'm surprised it's that low.

Ted | August 20, 2007, 12:06pm | #

If you read the rest of the article, the disparity might even be as high as 289 times worse for DOD than the bloggers.

This has been my experience in the military, they sweat the small things but not the big things.

SPD | August 20, 2007, 3:25pm | #

I've asked before and I'll ask again: Why does the military hate America?