The Defense Department is blocking access to 13 Web sites. Personnel use of popular social networking and entertainment sites is siphoning too much of its network bandwidth and creating too many security holes, the department said. The Defense Department has seen too much of its vast network’s resources being drained for non-military uses, U.S. Army Gen. B.B. Bell said in a communique dated May 11. Personnel are not being barred from accessing the sites from their own computers that access the Internet through private Internet Service Providers.
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Soldiers Lose MySpace, YouTube Privileges
Posted by: Fred J. Aun May 14, 2007 11:20 AMThe Defense Department is blocking access to 13 Web sites. Personnel use of popular social networking and entertainment sites is siphoning too much of its network bandwidth and creating too many security holes, the department said. The Defense Department has seen too much of its vast network’s resources being drained for non-military uses, U.S. Army Gen. B.B. Bell said in a communique dated May 11. Personnel are not being barred from accessing the sites from their own computers that access the Internet through private Internet Service Providers.