Posts Tagged with ‘dod’

China and the Web seem to be in the news every day and today is no exception. According to Lt. General Robert Elder, Commander of the 8th Air force and head of the new "three star cyber-command", China is seeking to be the dominant power in cyberspace. The U.S. cyber-command is leading a new push to maintain its superiority in this area according to Elder. It is difficult to imagine Chinese soldiers manning their laptops as at left, but the [...]

It looks like Pentagon further restricts the way military personnel uses the world wide web. Military personnel and civilian employees will not be able to access YouTube, MySpace, Pandora, Photobucket, hi5, metacafe and several other “recreational Internet sites” (I like the term, by the way) when they are using the Department of Defense network. The full list of websites along with the explanation of the reasons for such a decision can be found in the official Pentagon memo. The cited [...]