The Taliban are 'friends' of soldiers on Facebook... - ABC.es

The Australian Government realiz? the last March a study of social media that reveals that Taliban insurgents used fake profiles on Facebook for informaci?n of military personnel and defense.

SEG?n the report, one of the strategies employed by terrorists is to pretend to be ?atractivas mujeres? that, once they have managed to make friends from the military to the social network trav?s, they can track the whereabouts of tagged Facebook geogr?fico options trav?s soldiers.

?La mayor?a does not recognize people using fake profiles, quiz? haci?ndose pass by an old school friend, podr?an capture your informaci?n and movimientos?, according to the report. ?Pocos considered the possibilities of removing data and c?mo patterns of behavior can be identified with the tiempo?, remarked.

SEG?n indicates the website Mashable, the study of the Government of Australia tambi?n se?ala to the family and friends of the military can jeopardize missions of soldiers through the exchange of confidential data to social media trav?s.

As?, a high percentage of respondents admitted that they were not aware of the dangers of sharing too much informaci?n to trav?s of social media. 58% Of 1577 that participated in the study explained that not hab?an received a training suitable for the use of these social media.

For its part, the Department of Defense Australia pointed out est? working in the elaboraci?n of a gu?a of social media for soldiers in combat misi?n. However, these new guidelines do not estar?n ready until Christmas 2012. The study recommends that the soldiers do not share personal data such as name, rank and location to trav?s of social platforms.