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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Excellent point. My observations are this: when leadership above the person is lacking in OpSec, all members of the unit follow the bad example.
Social media is a doorway to the world. Good news and bad right?
Social media is a doorway to the world. Good news and bad right?
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When leadership focuses on the problem. Go to any bar in a military town and it's all in the open.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
SSgt (Join to see) - The Pizza Hut near the Pentagon used to be able to tell whenever a major operation was underway by the spike in orders. Once the Pentagon had figured out that Pizza Hut had broken their OPSEC they started an OPDEC operation that would randomly do large orders to confuse their Opponent, in this case Pizza Hut.
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SrA Paul Pfeil
PO1 William "Chip" Nagel - they should have just started making there oun pizza into house, not like there isn't a chow hall or fast food on the property, right!!
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
SrA Paul Pfeil - To be Honest I think there actually is a Pizza Hut in the Basement of the Pentagon now.
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I think it varies service by service. When I was deployed the Army (specifically 3ID) was really harsh on soldiers who "discharged classified info.". The AF on the other hand, not so much. However, if senior officials can get away with it, it will be cited as implied case law.....
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As soon as theirs a feasible way to do it. Intelligence Oversight prevents collection on US persons so the only people who would have the authority to be looking for these types of conversations on Facebook would be OSI because of their Counterintelligence authorities. And there's no where near enough of them to do that mission.
It comes down to us to make sure we're practicing InfoSec. And if you see someone not practicing you need to stop them immediately.
It comes down to us to make sure we're practicing InfoSec. And if you see someone not practicing you need to stop them immediately.
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SGT Kyle Johnson
Capt (Join to see) Was traveling back to Afghanistan and saw a civilian asking a group of service members to observe OPSEC. Don't know what they were discussing, but was impressed that a civilian (probably a DA person) asked them, very politely to think about their discussion. They responded that the person was correct, Thanked them and moved on. Hopefully we all could do the same..
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If you see it, report it. You have a variety of options. CoC, CI office on your installation or area, IG. DoD IG maintains a hotline for reporting. http://www.dodig.mil/hotline/index.html
There aren't enough CI agents in the world to keep track of social media.
There aren't enough CI agents in the world to keep track of social media.
DoD IG - The Department of Defense Hotline
The mission of the DoD Hotline is to provide a confidential, reliable means to report violations of law, rule or regulation, mismanagement, gross waste of funds, abuse of authority, and classified information leaks involving the Department of Defense; as well as the detection and prevention of threats and danger to the public health and safety of the Department and our Nation.
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Example 3: Meet and Greet, Embassy Party, Staff from other embassies attending. When everybody gets home they discuss with their loved ones what happened, who said what, who was sick or injured, who drank too much or appeared confused (Their Loved ones are not cleared or indoctrinated) then next day all are going to do their debrief reports or are going to be debriefed by their Intel Folks. When the Intel Folks report the Debrief it will be classified with an Initial Determination and submitted to an Original Authority Classification that will make the final determination on the classification and what it should be. Welcome to the Confusing World of a Spook.
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SGT Kyle Johnson
PO1 William "Chip" Nagel I was selected by the BN Commander in Berlin to drive a shuttle bus for an officers ball. Only because he believed I wold not relay the things I was about to witness. Boy, was that hard! Holy Cow these guys were off the hook... carried half of them into their quarters and the crap they talked about... I knew it was better just to go on my merry way after that night. Glad they all had a good time and got home safe. Was even Thanked by several of them in the following days.
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When the leadership starts caring.
We had a female send convoy information over a personal email while deployed.
Probably a coincidence, but one of those convoys was hit.
It was brushed under the rug, and she was promoted to E-5 a few months later.
We had a female send convoy information over a personal email while deployed.
Probably a coincidence, but one of those convoys was hit.
It was brushed under the rug, and she was promoted to E-5 a few months later.
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Want a security clearance? Feds will now check your Facebook and Twitter first
The government has been behind the curve on mining social media for relevant details about trustworthiness.
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SPC Bruce Nichols
Time is of the essence in this matter I would hope. Our adversaries are stockpiling information from negligence.
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