Soldier Posts Secret Attack Plans on Facebook
The Israeli military was forced to delay a raid because one of its soldiers spilled the beans of Facebook. Duh.
The Israeli military was forced to delay a raid on a Palestinian village after one of its soldiers revealed the operation's sensitive details on Facebook. The soldier, remaining unnamed, provided actual specifics, indicating the time and place of the "clean up" raid. The soldier even provided the name of his particular unit.
"On Wednesday we clean up Qatanah, and on Thursday, God willing, we come home," the soldier wrote on his Facebook page. The village mentioned in the post resides on the West Bank near Ramallah.
BBC News reports that the soldier's Facebook friends and fellow soldiers reported him to the proper authorities. The military thus delayed its plans to raid Qatanah in fear of putting it soldiers in danger. The operation was eventually carried out several days later, the report said.
"Uploading classified information to social networks or any website exposes the information to anyone who wishes to view it, including foreign and hostile intelligence services," the Israeli military said in a statement. "Hostile intelligence agents scan the internet with an eye toward collecting information on the IDF (Israel Defense Forces), which may undermine operational success and imperil IDF forces."
The unnamed soldier was court-martialed and forced to serve ten days in prison. He was also relieved of combat duties and kicked out of his battalion.
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And that's why all the Social networks are blocked on all DoD networks.
Some people just shouldn't be serving in the military.
And he seriously didn't see that coming?
Wow....that's all I can say....
Wow...
Actually, Facebook is not blocked on DoD networks. I'm in the Army, and I see people on Facebook almost every day.
and to think, up until this point he was allowed to carry a weapon with live ammo. its a wonder he never shot a friendly...or did he ?!?
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Hamas invited you to join "I LOL'ed when I saw how complicated this military operation had become"
DoD will not continue to block social networking sites, as already stated in the news.
Im able to get on Facebook daily at work(USN), if someone is stupid enough to post military movements on a public site, then they get what is coming to them.
And that's why all the Social networks are blocked on all DoD networks.Some people just shouldn't be serving in the military.
And how would this solve the problem? People do go home eventually...
Wow....that's all I can say....Wow...
+1
Thats all i can say as well.
Good thing he did... Israel is already being a bitch to the Palestinians.. need some sort of support... lol may it be from the opposition themselves or not..
Facebook is blocked at my work, I'm in the USAF.
Meat Head by definition number four:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYlyb1Bx9Ic&NR=1
what a complete idiot. At least now he won't be able to put other soldiers' lives at risk.
My guess is that he wanted out of the military really badly, but didn't want to pull a Klinger.
"and on Thursday, God willing, we come home"
Looks like he wasn't exactly keen on being a soldier.
"The unnamed soldier was court-martialed and forced to serve ten days in prison. He was also relieved of combat duties and kicked out of his battalion."
10 days in prison vs risking life in war zone...
Quite the effective, if incredibly reckless, way to get out of the army.
And how would this solve the problem? People do go home eventually...
People don't go into battles that they can post about when they're at home?
now you could see the 2nd greatest powerful army in the world are formed of children, not to mention their recent 26 Mossad members who've been compromised by the police of Dubai after their operation, training 26 commandos team members costs Israel a lot, not all their cards are burnt out
DUMBASS!
what is unfortunate is that they stopped their incursion and that they weren't ambushed by waiting fighters. Also, training and weapons cost Israel nothing, the US pays for all of Israel's expenses with "loans" that Israel is never actually obliged to pay back. If this guy did make a mistake then I hope more of their soldiers make similar mistakes in the future, they deserve it!
Lets all make posts on a tech website about political bullshit, that sounds like a good idea.
What a clever chap, not only does he scupper an illegal terrorist attack on a foreign country, he also gets out of an Army where he is obviously unhappy. A win win situation from his point of view. It's a pity there weren't more upstanding citizens like him.
What did you say about privacy, Google?
Cheers! xD!
assuming he did this intentionally and isn't just a doofus but yes I hope there's an Israeli soldier in every operation who does this
Ummm... irony?
I guess that's easier than wearing dresses in an attempt to obtain a section 8.... Maybe he didn't have the legs to pull it off.
If he wanted to get out of the army he should have admitted he was a homosexual.
My god, how stupid can you be...
The best thing is, Osama Bin Laden liked it!
Facebook is blocked at my work, I'm in the USAF.
Yeah, my employer blocks it too. Not that big of a deal. I'm not the sort of person who updates what I'm doing on a minute by minute (or even day by day) basis.
P.S. Thank you (and all the other military folks here) for your service!
well there's hardly a way you can really block stuff like facebook without blocking everythign but select whitelisted stuff!
You could just use a feature like internet cloaker or a private vpn or ssl based remote control and circumvent port and destination blocks - even protocol inspectors would only see that it was 'encrypted web traffic' not that it was a remote desktop wrapped in something