If “elite” military intelligence officers can’t keep from leaking secrets, what hope is there for those of us trying to herd our corporate cats toward improved information protection?

Israel has sentenced a soldier to 19 days in jail for uploading a photograph taken on his military base to the social networking website, Facebook.

The Israeli military declined to comment on the nature of the image, but said the soldier was serving with an elite intelligence unit.

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The review has found that some troops had posted detailed pictures of air bases, operations rooms and submarines.

Just asking.

It isn’t just the IDF. It’s at least one U.S. member of congress, too!

http://www.vetvoice.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=947

Interestingly, it seems that even after being told by the Pentagon to take down the video he had hosted on a US government computer, the vid remained up for over a week.

http://www.cwalsh.org/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2008/04/13#mchenry

Sigh.

Common problem. We all seem to forget that our serious designs just look like roadblocks to life to users. Either a system provides benefits to the direct end-users, or they bypass, ignore or and/or ditch it. Old story, written up by Kerckhoffs in 1883, see his 6th principle.

Oh, and whatever else one thinks, soldiers are just like the end-users we know in the computer game, and what the officers say is just like what the CSOs and the experts …