7-31-2009 National:
Security issues prove difficult
The Defense Department is considering banning Twitter, Facebook and other social-networking sites for security reasons.
Wired's Danger Room blog reported that the reason for the latest proposed ban is that the sites may give hackers easy access to military networks.
“The mechanisms for social networking were never designed for security and filtering," said an unnamed source at U.S. Strategic Command in the blog entry. "They make it way too easy for people with bad intentions to push malicious code to unsuspecting users. It’s just a fact of life."
Strategic Command has asked the rest of the military for feedback on a social-media ban, Wired's blog reported.
“The answer is somewhere between” full access and a total bad, said DOD spokesman Bryan Whitman, quoted in a Navy Times article. “We’re working through this challenge of how do we operate in this environment — because these are important communication tools — and at the same time, provide the necessary protection to our systems [and] ensure the necessary operational security and private security concerns that any organization would have.”
The potential ban comes at a time when the DOD has overcome some of its initial reluctance and begun to embrace social media. The Armed Forces Press Services reports that the Army, for just one example, has been using MySpace effectively for recruiting. ..Source.. by Defense Systems
July 31, 2009
DOD may ban Twitter, Facebook, other social media
March 18, 2009
Twitter - Useful for our advocacy - YES/NO
3-18-2009 National:
Not wanting to miss out on a possible useful new service, can anyone think of how we could EFFECTIVELY use Twitter in our advocacy?
Post comment or send me a e-mail with thoughts...
Here is how others in the legal field are using it:
Law School and Law Library Twitter Feeds
"Rex Gradeless" at Social Media Law Student has identified some law schools and academic law libraries that are using Twitter feeds to communicate with students. Mr. Gradeless reports that the feeds are used to inform students about snow delays, on campus events, website updates, and student accomplishments. Law professors are even jumping on adding announcements to these Twitter pages. Good idea.
Here's the list of Twitter feeds.
Case Western Reserve University School of Law - http://twitter.com/case_law
Duke Law Publications - http://twitter.com/DukeLawPub
Hamline Law School - http://twitter.com/hamlinelaw
Harvard Law School - http://twitter.com/harvard_law
Marquette University Law School - http://twitter.com/mulaw
New York University Law School - http://twitter.com/nyulaw
Oklahoma City University School of Law - http://twitter.com/OCULAW
Pace Law Library - http://twitter.com/pacelawlibrary
Pace Law School - http://twitter.com/pacelawschool
Pierce Law School - http://twitter.com/piercelaw
University at Buffalo Law Library - http://twitter.com/UBLawLib
University at Buffalo Law School - http://twitter.com/UBLaw
University of Chicago - http://twitter.com/uchicagolaw
University of Iowa College of Law Director of External Relations - http://twitter.com/jilledy
University of Iowa College of Law News - http://twitter.com/tsnee
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill School of Law - http://twitter.com/unc_law
University of San Diego School of Law - http://twitter.com/USanDiegoLaw
University of Toronto Faculty of Law - http://twitter.com/UTLaw
University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law - http://twitter.com/sjquinney
Valparaiso University School of Law - http://twitter.com/ValparaisoLaw
Washburn Law School - http://twitter.com/washburnlaw
Yale Law Library - http://twitter.com/yalelawlibrary
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