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Discord admin gets 15 years for “one of the most significant leaks” in US history (arstechnica.com)

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[-] garretble@lemmy.world 132 points 2 years ago

Shoulda become president first THEN leaked classified documents to russia. He'd be fine in that case.

[-] Illogicalbit@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] Toribor@corndog.social 0 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] Llewellyn@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Isn't that the point of capitalism?

[-] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 years ago

Not only wouldn't he see a punishment, but he'd be elected a second time to do it again!

[-] Skua@kbin.earth 80 points 2 years ago

You fool, you're only supposed to post things like that on the Warthunder forums!

[-] simple@lemm.ee 64 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 39 points 2 years ago

Guy was only leaking to show off to a bunch of teenagers. Loser

[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago

To be fair, leaking government secrets is the most effective defense against momma jokes.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

Your momma leaks government secrets.

[-] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 9 points 2 years ago

governmentsecrets.pdf , Ha! Gotcha!

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 years ago

F35-radar-cross-sections.pdf.exe

[-] frankgrimeszz@lemmy.world 31 points 2 years ago

15 years to flex as a Discord mod. 😂

[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 13 points 2 years ago

Was this a more significant leak than the Gulf oil spill? I think not.

[-] espentan@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

The people responsible for that one are rich, and they can do no wrong.

[+] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip -9 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

The production details for nuclear weapons are on a government document.

[-] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 years ago

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?

[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

But do you want that document published now in the world we live in today?

[-] Kilometers_OBrien@startrek.website 4 points 2 years ago

You go first

[-] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip -3 points 2 years ago

I am a private citizen who has not been given power over the lives of other people. Therefore, I don't have to.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This dude hasn't read The Republic.

Of course, he's right. He doesn't have to.

[-] TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 years ago

Yep, everyone should know nuclear codes, inside agents in terrorist cells, where to strike to kill as many and do as much damage as possible, how to manufacture weapons and IEDs...

Should i continue? Are you fucking stupid?

[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 0 points 2 years ago

Personally I dont want the government documents with my home address and phone number and tax id and voting history to be leaked, tyvm

[-] lud@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago

Why would the government know your voting history? Isn't voting anonymous where you live?

No idea what a tax id is but in Sweden everyone's home address, income, phone number, "personnummer" (a unique ID assigned to every citizen), and some other stuff. And for the most part it works pretty well. I'm usually concerned about privacy but I don't mind this because it applies to everyone equally (except a few people with protected identity for safety reasons) and it's just so open and convenient.

I'm not saying that all government documents should be public information but here most documents are.

[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 0 points 2 years ago

God I hope the government records my voting history

As someone who votes over mail, it drives me crazy that I can't login to some website and get confirmation that they have received the vote, and what they recorded the votes as.

People deserve to be able to confirm their votes. Its a requirement for a democracy.

[-] lud@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago

Vote in person then 🤷

Here it's only possible to mail vote from abroad and I have never done it but it doesn't appear that you get a confirmation here either.

If we are talking about registers of who voted and not for whom. Why does it matter? Who voted isn't secret at all. So why even bring that up? For the record I voted in the most recent EU and national elections.

[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 0 points 2 years ago

Cant vote in person. I live abroad

[-] lud@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago

Can't you vote at an embassy or consulate?

[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 0 points 2 years ago

Nope. Believe me I tried.

[-] lud@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

That's a shame. Well at least it is not as important since you don't actually live there. Not saying it's not important, it's not just quite as important as someone actually living there.

[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 1 points 2 years ago

The person who has access to the biggest nuclear arsenal in the world affects all life on Earth

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