I am a member of one of these facebook groups that deals with Israeli weapons. I couldn't believe some of the technical information thatpeople were
posting about various weapons including the Merkava tanks. When I notified the founder of the group he pretty much brushed my thoughts aside saying the info
can be found anywhere, which is of course not true. Soldiers were telling about the faults as well as the good aspects of some high tech weaponry. I'm
glad the IDF is taking a stance, now if only Cops and our military follow suit.














April 11, 2008 Israeli officials: Facebook is national security threat

• Story Highlights
• Israeli defense officials worried by information published on Facebook
• Soldiers have been inadvertently revealing sensitive information online
• New rules tell soldiers not to reveal their occupation on Web sites
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JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israeli defense officials say they have identified an unlikely new threat to national security --
Facebook.









Israeli defense officials say soldiers have inadvertently revealed sensitive information on
Facebook.













A new list of rules announced Thursday aims to prevent soldiers and Defense Ministry employees from revealing classified information on social
networking sites.


The officials say some soldiers have uploaded pictures of themselves with classified equipment, inadvertently revealing sensitive
information.


The rules allow soldiers to create pages on networking sites as long as they do not identify themselves as soldiers or reveal information
about what they do.


They spoke on condition of anonymity because the rules have not been officially published.