Security - it's not a dirty word...
 

This reminds me of the late 1980's when we were advised to check our vehicles for IEDs (we called them "car bombs" then...) every morning before we got into our vehicle...


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I think that one of the main threats to our security in these technically advanced times is the use of "social media" by just about everyone. I am not against "Facebook" but I do not have an account and I believe that people should think carefully before putting too much info into the "public domain".

Crevice is a dirty word, but security isn't.

Sorry, childish I know, but it had to be done.

Melchy

Ah, but "leak" is a positively disgusting word! :ok:

LJ

P.S. You can lock down facebook so that only your friends can see your pictures...

At the height of the IRA threat at the end of the 1980s I was working on a multi-national NATO Air Base in West Germany (near the Dutch border). An American briefing team arrived to give a detailed security/anti-terrorism assessment to the personnel on base. They spent an hour detailing the activities of a terrorist group called the "RAF" much to the amusement of our NATO friends and ignored the IRA activities totally. Any questions? I introduced myself as an officer in the RAF and asked them about the killings of British personnel that had taken place in the local area over the past few weeks. "We do not consider the IRA to be a significant threat" was the American response - he quickly changed the subject when I added "Even with British Military personnel working here and British married quarters just outside the main gate?"

LJ - re farcebook - true - but if one of your friends hasn't locked theirs.....

When you post the pictures, who really owns them? Facebook has a license to use your content in any way it sees fit, with a license that goes beyond merely covering the operation of the service in its current form. Facebook can transfer or sub-license its rights over a user’s content to another company or organisation. Facebook’s license doesn't even end when you deactivate your account, content is only released from this license once all other users that have interacted with the content have also broken their ties with it (for example, a photo or video shared or tagged with a group of friends).

Just as posted above, do not rely on ANY Facebook security settings !

I regularly find out information Facebook posters didn't want others to see that they have posted for friends only (I do this for work purposes, rather than just being nosey)

PerSec is Personal.

I never introduce RAF when I first meet someone. If pressed Civil Service and that is sufficiently boring to switch people off. That is until I saw in the paper someone saying what when someone works in the civil service it is either Fire, MGS, Job Centre, Foreign Office etc, except those who say civil servant - they work for MOD.

Once, many moons ago, we were at a camp site next to a German couple, he had a Herr Flikk of a limp. Innocently Mrs PN asked the wife what had happened.

"Oh it was during the war, the RAF you know. What does your husband do?"

Oh he just works in an office.

You have friends? :E:p

Society has long complained about being watched by Big Brother, campaigned against National Identity cards and the information that they would contain, yet is quite happy to display a plethora of personal information over social media.

It is not secure by any stretch of the imagination. As soon as you post information it is 'somewhere' in cyberspace which means 'someone' can get at it. Those in uniform who choose to post, especially those who detail their every move are really just rolling the dice. The lovely chick who warns of the dangers of loose talk putting yourself and your comrades at risk on the Paradigm services has a pretty good point. A pity she's not employed to do the same on Facebook.

Anyhow, I'm sure it's a great way to keep in touch with distant friends, however I reckon it's just for bored people who want to share pointless views with the masses who don't really want to hear them.........a bit like this actually :)

It's true that only mutual friends will see your pictures if a friend decides to share them on. There is nothing as yet to stop a friend from being able to download them though, a feature many have asked for.

I never introduce RAF when I first meet someone. - PN

OMG!:eek: Where would that approach leave Harrier pilots?:uhoh:

Jack

Don't they just say they're unemployed?

I suppose that one of the benefits of serving in the 50's and 60's was that we couldn't afford vehicles to check :ok:

Reminds me of when OC Home Front and I took over our first MQ and she fished the inspection mirror out of the downstairs cupboard, completely baffled as to it's purpose.

Do they still have inspection mirrors on MQ inventories?

Nutty...:sad:...no...

Lots of paranoia on here... So many do publish their jobs, you would have to be unlucky...

You can't completely protect yourself in this day and age. The typical mo for terrorist organisations will mean it's more likely to be down to bad luck than publishing details on tinters IMHO....

All you can do is remain vigilant and prepared in the event it does ever kick off...

Wish I'd bought that Desert Eagle in K-Mart now...

Vin Rouge is absolutely spot on.

Unless you are prepared to take yourself totally "off grid", with all the disadvantages that would entail in the modern world, the idea that cherry-picking online channels to protect your identity is naive beyond belief.

Privacy is dead...deal with it.

PS Security in numbers...if you want to disappear in a crowd, be a part of it.

THS, no, we even got rid of them at my last unit and the local Govt surplus place sold them.