the ROME – At the front without mobile phone or tablet. For the first time, american troops directed towards the hot zone of the iranian crisis is forbidden free online. The order has been transmitted to all the paratroopers of the 82ma division, historical department, that in the D-Day is launched on the back of German in Sainte-Mère-Eglise, and now it is intended to serve as a force of rapid intervention for the deployment of the Pentagon.
Before getting on the aircraft that you transfer them in Kuwait, the paras are controlled to avoid that lead behind any device capable of entering the Web. “We did this to not expose them to hazards,” explained the colonel, Mike Burns to Army Times, a magazine of the u.s. military. The official said that there is a double concern: to avoid that news on a shipment so delicate to be transmitted out of the “secure channels”), namely, that in the end in some way on a social network and to prevent any form of cyber attack.
The mission unplugged is a novelty, but not a surprise. The Usa take into great consideration the capabilities of iran in raids online. “Tehran has a robust program cyber and is capable, as a minimum, to launch attacks with serious damage, even if only for short periods,” they said on Saturday, the leaders of the Homeland Security.
In the past few months the habit of sharing information online has betrayed him, for example, the location of the secret bases used in Iraq and in Syria for the anti-Isis commando of americans: on a site the commandos carried their training in the race, in a sort of virtual race, which smascheravano, however, the movements. And then there is the fear that the device of the soldiers can do “side”, turning into carriers of computer viruses from a laptop or from a smartphone, a para can penetrate in the network of the Pentagon.
For the 4 thousand men and women, and reinforcements that are leaving to the Middle East is a return to the past. You will find in the conditions experienced by their fathers deployed to Saudi Arabia in 1990 for the First Gulf War: long queues on the phones are “safe” to be able to call home and the files to a few computers “shielded” to read and send emails. A clean cut with the families and homeland, which today not even the paras are used to.
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