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Targeting Military Personnel

bigoutsidebigoutside Member Posts: 19,443
edited March 2015 in General Discussion
If you're in the military ... Get off Facebook!


Holy Cow. Everyone should know this by now.

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  • ChrisInTempeChrisInTempe Member Posts: 15,562
    edited November -1
    Absolutely, get off all "Social Media".

    I wish I could talk about my work and my work history. I have done and continue to do things of interest here. I cannot, it's all too identifiable. I say that because I know my employer uses a security service that monitors social media. You can be sure that with GB Forums being indexed by Google, they watch for any negative references to their company.

    That's my "Risk Management" in the private sector. Can't be any lower risk in the military.
  • chiefrchiefr Member Posts: 14,115 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by bigoutside
    If you're in the military ... Get off Facebook!


    Holy Cow. Everyone should know this by now.



    Military leadership "strongly encouraged" its member to avoid social media, especially Facebook over 10 years ago. It should be no secret FB has destroyed a number of promising careers.

    Despite what some people think of Snowden, he nailed FB to the letter. As long as users understand FB should be considered a government website and everything they post is saved and monitored, it is OK.
  • bpostbpost Member Posts: 32,669 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    There is no positive result POSSIBLE for your life by posting on FB, Twitter, Instagram or other social sites; so why do it?
  • USN_AirdaleUSN_Airdale Member Posts: 2,987
    edited November -1
    FB is run by commies who HATE America !
  • ChrisInTempeChrisInTempe Member Posts: 15,562
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by bigoutside
    If you're in the military ... Get off Facebook!


    Holy Cow. Everyone should know this by now.




    Hearing on the news that ISIS has put 100 names, addresses and photos of American military personnel on a website. Urging their followers to kill them at home. ISIS claims they hacked into American military data bases. But it looks like all the info comes from open sources on the internet.

    Such as social media and news postings.

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  • spasmcreekspasmcreek Member Posts: 37,717 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    and until WE start proactively doing the same to them they will continue ...death and its goals is the only thing they can comprehend so lets give it out first..political correctness is a self defeating course of inaction
  • Sam06Sam06 Member Posts: 21,244 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I don't do any "social media", this is one of the reasons.


    But I have 2 words for any IS ch*t bags reading this: Bring it!
    RLTW

  • ChrisInTempeChrisInTempe Member Posts: 15,562
    edited November -1
    An online forum like this is "Social Media". Not so big a deal as Face Book or some others. But it is indexed by Google. GB Forums turns up in Google searches. Likely other search engines too.

    This means that at the very least what you say here can be found by employers. Small businesses may not bother, or only take notice accidentally or if someone rats you out.

    Quite a few large employers contract out monitoring of Social Media by security companies. Or they have their own internal security people doing it. They may deny it publicly, but I've sat in meetings of several companies (non-defense related) where this was discussed. Including the results and the level of concern those results raised.
  • cce1302cce1302 Member Posts: 9,555 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    They don't need facebook to find us. The military publishes promotion lists every month.

    http://www.armytimes.com/article/20140925/CAREERS02/309250049

    Last, first, middle name.

    ABBEY DERECK ASANTE SGT 25R
    ABBOTT STEPHANIE JO SGT 14T
    ABDALLA KHALID SAFEELDIN SGT 09L
    ABRAHAM MARCUS JAMES SGT 25L
    ADAMS FAITH NICOLE SGT 25Q
    ADAMS IAN MICHAEL SGT 79S
    ADAMS KENNY ANDRE SGT 13F
    ADAMS ZACHARY ALFRED SGT 13F
    AGNEGUE ESSE D SGT 56M
    AGUILAR RICHARD SGT 68D
    AKINS JUSTIN BRIAN SGT 19K
    ALBERT GEOFFREY THOMAS SGT 13F
    ALBERT JOHNSTON JR SGT 36B
    ALBERT PHILLIP MOSES JR SGT 91A
    ALDRICH LORNA FAE SGT 68W
    ALEXANDER COLIN OSWALDO SGT 92R
    ALGER ERIC MICHAEL SGT 11B
    ALIBRAHEEM MUSTAFA S SGT 35P
    ALLEN JOHN MARK SGT 18C

    Combine that with any of the directory services and they're pretty easy to find.
  • scrumpyjackscrumpyjack Member Posts: 5,336 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by us55840
    Anyone in the military in the 1960's only need to look at the written orders they received for transfer, etc.

    It listed people by name, unit, rank and SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER.

    Some of those orders were produced in hundreds of copies, one to each person listed in the orders plus hundreds for all the units people assigned from/to.

    I kept every written military order I ever recieved and have many, many peoples name and social security numbers....freely provided by the U.S. Government. And those same people have mine.

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    This continued through the 90s. We also used to get our social printed on our checks to save time at checkouts. Wouldnt think of doing nowadays!
  • wpagewpage Member Posts: 10,201 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Once the Gov data base is hacked. Which it already has many times no one is safe...

    Thanks Uncle Sam for being a simpleton with "The Peoples" Data!
  • NavybatNavybat Member Posts: 6,849 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm not on FB and neither are my wife or kids. TOO dangerous. And not just from ISIS.
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