In the 2000s I thought that due to more and more people being on the internet, stories like this would be very common in the future, not just for the government, but private entities too.
In reality: Most things that happen at most workplaces are not interesting enough to leak, and most people do not want to risk their careers for something like this. So it’s still relatively rare.
Publish absolutely every government document. There should be no such thing as a secret government document ever. If you don’t want it known, don’t collect it. Don’t generate it.
Personally I dont want the government documents with my home address and phone number and tax id and voting history to be leaked, tyvm
While I disagree with OP, that kind of information isn’t classified. It’s personally identifiable information which is restricted and secured, but it’s not classified in the same sense as the person who leaked on discord.
In response to op, there are plenty of legitimate reasons to classify information that are not nefarious. For example, a diagram explaining the security systems for a building. It’s better to restrict access to that document so it is less likely for an adversary to see the details, because all that would really do is enable them to identify weaknesses which they could exploit. Generally this sort of thing is called operational security and I think it is actually the basis for the US government’s mandatory access control in the first place (e.g. “loose lips sink ships”).
Which is why that data should not be collected.
The production details for nuclear weapons are on a government document.
And? For the average country, the difficult thing about nuclear weapons is not how to build one (pipe with two halves and a bit explosives is enough for a few kt) but to get enough Plutonium. You know, the whole thing with Israel running secret facilities with ceramic centrifuges for years. What US and China are wasting a few MW computer center each year on, is getting a bit more out of it than the competition, especially fusion weapons. Seen rationally, it’s a childish “i have the bigger
dickboom”.And if all records had to be public, there would have been a hell of a lot lower chance of nuclear weapons being invented. Because who would want to give that weapon to everybody else as well as themselves?
But do you want that document published now in the world we live in today?
You go first
I am a private citizen who has not been given power over the lives of other people. Therefore, I don’t have to.
Shoulda become president first THEN leaked classified documents to russia. He’d be fine in that case.
No no no, see:
FBI Director Christopher Wray said that his sentence should serve as “a stark warning to all those entrusted with protecting national defense information: betray that trust, and you will be held accountable.”
They mean business! For real this time. No take backs. While supplies last. Void in some states. Not all locations participate. Some restrictions apply.
Not only wouldn’t he see a punishment, but he’d be elected a second time to do it again!
15 years to flex as a Discord mod. 😂
Was this a more significant leak than the Gulf oil spill? I think not.
The people responsible for that one are rich, and they can do no wrong.
You fool, you’re only supposed to post things like that on the Warthunder forums!
I thought I read this before, and sure enough it’s a follow up to a 2023 article
TL;DR: 21 year old national guard leaked classified documents on Discord for attention and got caught for it. Nice work.
What does being admin has to with it?
first of all, admin of some random discord server is something else than discord admin, but that wouldn’t give such nice tabloid headline…
Brain dead “journalism” strikes again!
No idea why they worded the article that way. The person going to prison is the person who leaked the documents and was also the admin of the discord server they leaked it to.
Thank you for confirming. I don’t click articles on socials due to tracking but that’s my understanding also.
So the wording is FUD thanks I suspected…
His crime is posting classified info as insider and he can’t even pretend to be a whistleblower.
Either way, folks take note! This how is modern propaganda works. Subtle and you have to know facts before hand in order not to fall for it
This is how modern propaganda works.
maybe it is modern propaganda, maybe the author is just incompetent moron trying to get as much clicks as possible 😔
Discord servers are restricted ring-fenced sections of the internet. They are often used by gaming groups and communities as secure chat rooms but are also used by fringe organisations to push their ideologies and discuss wild conspiracy theories and plots.
are also used by fringe organisations to push their ideologies and discuss wild conspiracy theories and plots.
Might Discord be, potentially, in some way related to the notorious hacker known as 4chan 🤣
Yeah, they should lock them both, just to be on the safe side.
Who ever wrote that have superficial understanding of how these services operate…
They should not be writing on the topic if they don’t properly researched the topic.
They at best an idiot, but likely just a useful idiot for the people in charge.
Where is the editorial quality?
🤡
but likely just a useful idiot for the people in charge
that’s little bit too harsh. the authors of the article write general news, they do not specialize in technology, and it is pretty clear none of them is gamer (i suspect that telegraph correspondent to united states doesn’t have much free time to waste on gaming 😂).
so while that paragraph is stupid to the degree where it is bordering on funny, i am not looking for malicious intent behind it.
Guy was only leaking to show off to a bunch of teenagers. Loser
To be fair, leaking government secrets is the most effective defense against momma jokes.
Your momma leaks government secrets.
Yo momma’s lips are so loose, she leaks government secrets.
governmentsecrets.pdf , Ha! Gotcha!
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