'Robin Sage' Social Hoax Duped Military, Security Pros

ancientribe writes "A social networking experiment of a phony female military security professional known as 'Robin Sage' (named after a US Army Special Forces training exercise) worked way too well, fooling even the most security-savvy professionals on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. It also led to the leakage of sensitive military information after an Army Ranger accepted 'Robin's' friend request on Facebook and his photos from Afghanistan exposed geolocation information accessible to 'Robin.' The researcher who conducted the experiment will show off his findings at the upcoming Black Hat USA conference in Las Vegas, where the real woman pictured in the profiles is scheduled to introduce him for his presentation."

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the army is obselete

[czarangelus]

It's obvious to me that what we think of as a "modern army" is more obselete than Windows ME. They are extremely expensive to maintain, prone to misadventure, and they often become nothing more than tools to enrich corporations at the expense of native peoples and the soldiers themselves.

We need a distributed, open-source approach to self defense. Look at the successes of Hezbollah against the Israeli army in the 2006 assault on Lebanon. For the first time, a native militia completely broke the advance of a modern Western army. And we will see this pattern occur again, and again, and again, until we learn that the most effective form of military action is motivated people defending their own land against a foreign invader.

Political power comes out of the barrel of a gun, which is why the government has no interest in allowing you to own RPGs or Stingers. It's funny how you never hear of some disgruntled Shi'a in Lebanon taking a rocket launcher to a school and slaughtering a bunch of kids. But of course, that would make it more difficult for the Federal Empire to incarcerate all the Jews or Japanese or Muslims or whoever the flavor of the week evil is.

Government is the answer to a question nobody should have asked. The answer to, "What will protect me?" or "What will lead to my prosperity?" is ALWAYS AND ONLY YOURSELF.

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[Anonymous Coward]

It will always be this way. Until we are no longer men. Obama is working on it.