(ip-192.com): While the British government encourages employees to use Twitter and build a community, the US Marine Corp has banned the use of Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and other social media sites, effective immediately.
"These internet sites in general are a proven haven for malicious actors and content and are particularly high risk due to information exposure, user generated content and targeting by adversaries," reads a Marine Corps order, issued Monday.
"The very nature of SNS (social network sites) creates a larger attack and exploitation window, exposes unnecessary information to adversaries and provides an easy conduit for information leakage that puts OPSEC [operational security], COMSEC [communications security], [and] personnel... at an elevated risk of compromise."
The Marine Corp ban will last a year, but it can be extended.
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