Posted on May 19, 2016
When are service members going to be held accountable for careless/unintentional classified information disclosures on social media?
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I have news for you, I can attest, if you see someone on here or Facebook saying things they shouldn't, if you take a screen shot of what they say, and contact that person's particular branch's Internet Security division, or contact that person's unit, they will do something about it. I know from personal experience on this one. That also goes for people saying disrespectful things that are harassing or way out of line. I for one usually remind them privatly first, and then if they cop an attitude, well, sorry Charlie. When I joined back into 91 opsec was very important, we were not even supposed to say what our mos was. Not that you couldn't tell when a bunch of us L.E. guys walked into a bar who we were.
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That will happen when enough people care and pay attention to a point where these people take decisive action.
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That is an excellent question! However, I don't think any firm set of rules have been established. They need to be though.
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we had several people get in trouble for this on my last deployment. mainly for posting leave dates and flight times on FB.
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SPC. Probably never. Hillary is walking, she will not be charged. The National Security Advisor has told that the Iran deal was a web of lies. Obamacare was a lie and the man bragged about it. The IRS has refused to answer to Congress. Lies is what this adminstration is all about. Everything about this adminstration is a joke. My question is will we recover.
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When it hits the fan so to speak. I've always been opsec minded. I take it very seriously because I don't want anything I say to endanger anyone else. My family doesn't even know what I do for a living aside from being a Marine. This way information can't be extracted from my family either.
Unless someone is dedicated enough to crackdown on it, the only way people are going to be held accountable is after the fact.
Unless someone is dedicated enough to crackdown on it, the only way people are going to be held accountable is after the fact.
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SrA Paul Pfeil
Well you just told everyone you have a family, and you are a marine, I bet you have a fb page, so now if someone wanted more they could look at your likes, your friends, and comments, and from that figure out about where you are stationed, who is interested your family, and who talks too much, and maybe get your phone number, address, look at your uniform patches and awards and decks, and figure out the rest. Come one, basic information can even be gotten on anyone on a simple Google search. Don't believe me, go on Google type in your name and see for yourself. Opsec, is so much more then just what you do.
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Cpl Justin Goolsby
OPSEC - Operations Security
The fact that I have a family is irrelevant. Unless you were cloned or a test tube baby, everyone has some form of a family. Not a secret. Not relevant to any mission. Where someone is stationed is also not a secret as long as you're on a home base. If you you forward deployed, that'd be a little bit more sensitive. But knowing where I currently reside is not a matter of national security.
Having a personality has nothing to do with opsec. Being a fan of something isn't opsec related. If I go to a bar to watch my favorite team play, I'm not going to start discussing deployment schedules, manpower issues or other sensitive issues just because I found a guy who likes the same team as me.
I get what you're trying to say about the nature of privacy online, but opsec is a completely different beast and yes, it only applies to the operations at hand.
The fact that I have a family is irrelevant. Unless you were cloned or a test tube baby, everyone has some form of a family. Not a secret. Not relevant to any mission. Where someone is stationed is also not a secret as long as you're on a home base. If you you forward deployed, that'd be a little bit more sensitive. But knowing where I currently reside is not a matter of national security.
Having a personality has nothing to do with opsec. Being a fan of something isn't opsec related. If I go to a bar to watch my favorite team play, I'm not going to start discussing deployment schedules, manpower issues or other sensitive issues just because I found a guy who likes the same team as me.
I get what you're trying to say about the nature of privacy online, but opsec is a completely different beast and yes, it only applies to the operations at hand.
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Example 2: There is a message that goes out every day, pretty classified that gives the Location of the President, VP, Speaker of the House, Senator Pro Tem, Sec State & Sec of the Treasury for the day. The Presidential Succession just in case the worst happens. You're not going to tell me that they don't tell their loved ones where they are that day? That information is Classified, at least it is classified when it is all 6 of them.
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Example: For 3 mo's I was handling the SPECATs and Prep for Prairie Fire/El Dorado Canyon. I couldn't tell anyone. Most nights the Wife would call and would shoot the breeze for a bit, Then my ACWS Wife would call and they would shoot the breeze for a bit. When it finally went down My Wife called and I said Can't Talk, Click. Terry's Wife called, He Said Can't Talk, Click. They called each other, "Turn on the Damn TV Something is going down" so much for OPSEC at the end. They knew what we did and how significant it was that we didn't want to talk to them.
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