The current U.S. administration might be Internet-savvy, but it’s not clear if certain branches of the military are yet. To wit, the United States Air Force is building a cyberwar control center, for which defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton received over $14 million, followed by a second contract of $20M for what might amount to setting up a wiki and a few other “collaboration” features for telecommunications researchers.
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With the U.S. military recently allowing soldiers to use social media, news of the Israeli military ditching a mission apparently due to a soldier’s indiscretion on Facebook, the question comes up of whether social media use could compromise American missions.
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