Orkut is being used for a lot of things today.None of which are related to social networking. Advertising, Spamming, Breeding ground to Illegal downloads, Malicious softwares, Hate communities, Political propaganda. One of the topics brought to light recently was the discussion of sensitive and confidential topics relating to national security. This is a matter of grave concern. With advancements in technology, services such a Google Earth has made it possible for every teenager to peek into neighboring country borders having such a volatile and popular platform such as Orkut to discuss matters of national security is cause for concern.
I decided to investigate the matter myself. The search keyword indian air force has 132 community results while indian army has 322 communities. Most of these communities seem innocuous on the surface. Lot of communities are filled with commercial links/spam – but thats the case with every community (poor moderation). However there are some communities which have topics discussing confidential matters such as Aircraft specifications, technical data, missile details etc. There are topics titled “News” which are flooded with internal information. While many such community owners and member participants, who are serving personnels, will argue that this is harmless debate, I beg to differ. With IT specialists working for government agencies today swarming and crawling the internet hunting for bits and pieces of information like scavenger wolves, giving out even the tiniest bit of lead can prove fatal and cause serious repercussions.
I further looked up the keywrods
We are all for freedom of speech, but when it leads to revealing sensitive information concerning national security we must put an end to it. In an attempt we can form an Content Censoring group and hope to reduce the leak of sensitive information.
totaaly agree wid you on this….and da smartasses in da pentagon have done a good job of national security confidentiality…although i think it is a matter of the knowledge prevailing amongst the ppl of the country (im not talking about the upcoming generations, here i talk about the desi babus governing our country, who know nothing but the art of minting money…the internet being a very small and vague part of it all to them)…so, in conclusion the awareness level (amongst the officials) needs to take a hike (literally
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good thought though..
i m not into orkut much other than frnds hope this will help ppl aware of it