UK defence ministry outlines blog rules

On 17 August 07 UK defence ministry issued a new guidelines on blogs for defence personnel.. okie.. security issues starts to surface with the advancement of technology with web 2.0, blogs, 3.5G phone.. I doubt writers knew of the implications involved writing defence stuff.

It's really not about letting people know. It's about speculation from readers. A simple incident that happened couple of days ago, spreads like wild fire across the island with speculations. people don't just speculate about what actually happens, their speculations slowly went into character analysis of people involved, damning of the people involved...suddenly the people of the forum became psychologist.. psychiatrist.. fortune teller etc. that's the effect of blabbering..

Is this necessary? And i don't know what happen to media research. A SPH reporter just have to leave a note in someone's shout box and expects people to provides her with information. That's rather unprofessional right? I dunno.. I'm not media..