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.
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”).
Oh the FBI definitely has a lot of PII on folks that’s classified. What do you think they do??
Which is why that data should not be collected.
Wut. So the IRS says I didn’t pay my taxes. I say I already did, but they dont have records showing I did, so they insist I pay again?
You’re not thinking.
Taxation is theft and the irs along with all world governments need to be desolved
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.
This dude hasn’t read The Republic.
Of course, he’s right. He doesn’t have to.
Was this a more significant leak than the Gulf oil spill? I think not.
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.
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?
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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.
