Discord admin gets 15 years for “one of the most significant leaks” in US history
Discord admin gets 15 years for “one of the most significant leaks” in US history
Former airman’s arrest raised questions about who gets access to confidential docs.
I love how his last name is pronounced "to share a" and he did, in abundance
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.
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.
Instead it is a message to tyrants: The US is for sale, you may loot and pillage as you desire. The law cannot and will not stop you.
Not only wouldn't he see a punishment, but he'd be elected a second time to do it again!
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 do with it?
15 years to flex as a Discord mod. 😂
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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.
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").
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
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