'Robin Sage' Social Hoax Duped Military, Security Pros 191
ancientribe writes "A social networking experiment of a phony female military security professional known as 'Robin Sage' (named after a US Army Special Forces training exercise) worked way too well, fooling even the most security-savvy professionals on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. It also led to the leakage of sensitive military information after an Army Ranger accepted 'Robin's' friend request on Facebook and his photos from Afghanistan exposed geolocation information accessible to 'Robin.' The researcher who conducted the experiment will show off his findings at the upcoming Black Hat USA conference in Las Vegas, where the real woman pictured in the profiles is scheduled to introduce him for his presentation."
Only link that matters (Score:5, Informative)
Is the fake facebook profile: http://www.facebook.com/robin.sage.641a [facebook.com]
duped some military.... (Score:5, Informative)
...but anyone who has ever thought about going for the long tab would catch that name. Robin Sage, really? Come on! [wikipedia.org]
Re:what kind of geolocation information? (Score:1, Informative)
resizing doesn't get rid of exif, dude.
Re:the army is obselete (Score:5, Informative)
I have no idea how this is relevant, and you're probably trolling, but seriously... the 2006 Lebanon war was NOT the first time a guerrilla army turned back regular forces. Look at the Anglo-Irish war from 1918-1921 for an example, or friggin' Vietnam. Or Afghanistan... every time anyone has ever tried to invade Afghanistan (the British twice, the Soviets, Alexander the Great, even). As to the rest of your post, your UID is low enough that you should be old enough to know better. Quit being 16, it's not becoming.
Re:the army is obselete (Score:4, Informative)
We were actually not doing too very well before regular military discipline was brought in by Von Stueben and some other European career officers who came over to help their Freemason brothers further the Enlightenment. The French naval blockade of the Chesapeake Bay and some bad weather up the York River didn't hurt either.
Re:Only link that matters (Score:1, Informative)
Very Hot!
http://www.facebook.com/robin.sage.641a#!/photo.php?pid=35767&id=100000595856619&fbid=101367666559761 [facebook.com
Re:the army is obselete (Score:3, Informative)
There could definitely be a reorganization of forces that the country could benefit from, but as attractive as the proposition of some sort of Libertarian Socialist (aka Anarchist) society devoid of central authority is, the chances of that being able to function for any length of time before faltering itself is pretty low. Catalonia when held by FAI/CNT in the Spanish Revolution (concurrent with the Spanish Civil War) is a prime example.
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Re:the army is obselete (Score:4, Informative)
No, Libertarian Socialism is the technical term for Anarchism. One of the founding intellectuals of the movement, Mikhail Bakunin, was an outspoken opponent of Marx in the First International, saying that Marxist Communism would lead to a "Red Bureaucracy" and was a betrayal of Socialist principles.
Basically, the idea in Libertarian Socialism is for free individuals to group themselves on direct democratic principles along lines of free association, rather than submitting to a State that is purely an exercise of force. The Libertarian party in the US was infested by Randism and combines the anti-authoritarian aspect of libertarianism with unfettered capitalistic greed. Libertarian Socialism/Anarchism requires that people act in the group interest for the common good, but getting people to do that isn't exactly easy, which is why it wouldn't work on large scale.
Modern Left-Center type of "Social Democrats" were always viewed by both Anarchists and Communists as "counter-revolutionary," but that's the model that won out in most of Europe and which the US Democratic Party tends to lean as well. It's relatively benign, but seems to scare people on the economic right and let down people on the economic and social left quite often for not going "too far enough"
Re:Only link that matters (Score:3, Informative)
I actually find it rather odd that they choose that picture. I know pretty much instantly that if I get a friend request of a girl in a bikini - unless I know her instantly I know it's just spam and ignore it.
If you read the article, you'll see the picture was intentionally chosen to throw up some red flags. FTFA:
Re:what kind of geolocation information? (Score:1, Informative)