FACT: A heated online debate is erupting about a particular photo posted online, and the brouhaha around it focuses on whether or not classified details are contained therein, thus revealing them.
ANALYSIS: Given that others are even now writing extensively about this photo and its controversy I thought I would add a couple of thoughts. Don’t bother blaming me for linking to the photo, by the way; 
given the attention and reposting/rehosting it has already received, the glare of publicity can only serve to prod better security practices.
I expect to see parody versions on Flickr soon, with “Area 51” touches.
And so to my related thoughts: recently, an active-duty USAF officer and regular reader emailed me about one of my posts concerning Rod Beckstrom and the new National Cyber Security Center, which he had not previously heard of. He wrote that in discussing it with a colleague, the response was “I thought the Air Force Cyber Command already had the mission to coordinate all cyber security efforts.”
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