Post A Picture… End Up In Jail?

When is a picture on a social networking site a threat to national security? According to a report, Israeli defence chiefs have realised that pictures of sensitive military installations are being posted on Facebook. People now have a fascination with social networking, taking pictures and posting them online for the world to scrutinize.

The story might seem a little draconian, but they are still allowing pictures of people - just not with sensitive information in them. If you look around the web you can find pictures of other people at work (including myself - if you look hard enough) however, on some of them you can read what is written on yellow stickies attached to monitors and cube walls. Another source of information for the enterprising criminal… so just beware, cyber criminals may well be more interested in the background of a picture than the foreground…

April 15, 2008 | Filed Under Speaking | 1 Comment