Episode #9: Social Software and Security

Armed with Science

4/1/2009 7:55 PM UTC

From Dr. Drapeau: Yes. I think that social software like the Intelligence Community's system called INTELINK cab be used for exactly that. Old habits die hard, but the reality is that if people need a cabability and aren't allowed to use it, they tend to circumvent rules and make their own capability - which might be less secure and efficient than adopting the original proposed change. This is something we have observed and thought a lot about in the course of our research.

businessplayce

4/1/2009 6:19 PM UTC

Do you think that Social Software (chat or otherwise) can be utilized to foster better inter-service communication? Not long after the Service Opp Centers were co-located at the pentagon, I was on watch and we had an issue where my service (Navy) needed AF lift capability. Even tho we were "co-located" across the hall from the AF opp center we were still using traditional comms methods (i.e. msg traffic) to get the answer we needed. When my flag officer was getting overly antsy I fi