Again, another fun tweet from @jonmott. A secret trip to Iraq was foiled by a member of the group posting multiple tweets regarding their location and activities. Wow. Isn’t the first thing you learn about social networking technologies is NOT to post your specific location at a given moment? (As a parent, I know that one). The funniest (and scariest) part of this is that the whistleblower was the former chairman of the Intelligence panel.
Now if HE can’t figure out how to be safe using social technologies, do the rest of us really have a chance? Am I being too over-confident to think I can keep my children safe with the safeguards I currently use or is it a hopeless endeavor?