dept of defense sets ban on social networking sites

[fris]

DENVER ? Soldiers serving overseas will lose some of their online links to friends and loved ones back home under a Department of Defense policy that a high-ranking Army official said would take effect Monday.

The sites covered by the ban are the video-sharing sites YouTube, Metacafe, IFilm, StupidVideos and FileCabi; social networking sites MySpace, BlackPlanet and Hi5; music sites Pandora, MTV, 1.fm and live365; and the photo-sharing site Photobucket.

link to article http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/...n/4801313.html

[kirupai]

I dont know why they havent done it earlier, while I was in the military I saw people wasting so much time there and a bunch of INFOSEC incidents (people posting information they shouldnt had).

Then again I used to have youtube open most of the time listening to music in the background since most online radio sites are blocked.