Despite New Policy, Pentagon Still Wary of the ‘Tubes

Published: March 5, 2010Posted in: Air Force, Army, Featured Post, Featured Posts, Info War, Israel, Web, cia, defense, facebook, google, internet, military, network, twitter

The Pentagon last week issued a new “open door” policy on social media last week. So how did an Air Force network administrator find out about the change? Not through their chain of command, but by reading about it on Danger Room . “I found out how the policy changed through Danger Room, not through a DoD website,” the source said. “When I inquired through our chain of command, they hadn’t heard anything about  it.” What’s more, the source added, access to many web tools had become more, not less, restricted since the policy was put in place. “Any other browser other than Internet Explorer has been blocked over past 96 hours,” the source said. “The only Google tools we can access now are Google Reader and Google Voice.” Part of it may be a top-down management style that creates information bottlenecks. The source said they found out about Pentagon’s recently lifted ban on USB drives through Danger Room, not through official channels: “This is very peculiar, given the position I have and the level of connectivity I have, that this is how I find out it’s official policy.” Others have written in to complain that they are still being blocked from accessing social media like Facebook and Twitter. “No SNS (Social Networking Services) here yet,” wrote an NCO stationed in Europe.

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Despite New Policy, Pentagon Still Wary of the ‘Tubes