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Defense Department Blocks Internet Sites to Protect Grid
By Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 14, 2007 - The Defense Department is blocking
access to many popular Internet sites from department-owned
computers due to bandwidth issues, U.S. Strategic Command officials
said today.
Joint Task Force Global Network Operations, which directs the
operation and defense of the Defense Department's global
information grid to assure timely and secure capabilities in
support of the department's warfighting, intelligence, and business
missions, blocked 12 popular sites on government computers
today.
The sites are: youtube.com, pandora.com, photobucket.com,
myspace.com, live365.com, hi5.com, metacafe.com, mtv.com,
ifilm.com, blackplanet.com, stupidvideos.com and filecabi.com.
The popularity of the sites has not affected operations yet, but
blocking them prevents them from causing such a problem, officials
said . "It is a proactive measure: we do not want a problem with
demand for these sites clogging the networks," a U.S. Strategic
Command official said.
The blocks affect only Defense Department computers and local area
networks that are part of the department's global information grid.
The department has more than 15,000 local and regional networks and
more than 5 million computers in the grid.
Department officials stress they are not making a judgment about
the sites. Blocking the sites "is in no way a comment on the
content, purpose or uses of the Web sites themselves," the official
said. "It is solely a bandwidth/network management issue."
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