Discord admin gets 15 years for “one of the most significant leaks” in US history : technology

[-] garretble@lemmy.world 131 points 1 week ago

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

[-] Illogicalbit@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago

Isn't that the point of capitalism?

[-] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 week 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 1 week ago

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

[-] simple@lemm.ee 64 points 1 week 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 38 points 1 week ago

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

[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago

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

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

Your momma leaks government secrets.

[-] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 9 points 1 week ago

governmentsecrets.pdf , Ha! Gotcha!

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 week ago

F35-radar-cross-sections.pdf.exe

[-] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 7 points 1 week ago

What does being admin has to do with it?

[-] colforge@lemm.ee 20 points 1 week ago

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.

[+] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org -6 points 1 week ago

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 as 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 is how modern propaganda works. Subtle and you have to know facts before hand in order not to fall for it

[-] 14th_cylon@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

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.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/07/14/matthew-crooks-shooting-assasination-attempt-suspect/

[-] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org -2 points 1 week ago

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?

🤡

[-] 14th_cylon@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor

[-] 14th_cylon@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

first of all, admin of some random discord server is something else than discord admin, but that wouldn't give such nice tabloid headline...

[-] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org -1 points 1 week ago

Brain dead "journalism" strikes again!

[-] frankgrimeszz@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago

15 years to flex as a Discord mod. 😂

[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 13 points 1 week ago

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

[-] espentan@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

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

[+] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip -9 points 1 week 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 1 week ago

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

[-] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week 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 1 week ago

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

[-] Kilometers_OBrien@startrek.website 4 points 1 week ago

You go first

[-] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip -3 points 1 week 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 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This dude hasn't read The Republic.

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

[-] TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 week 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?

Technology

Our Rules

Approved Bots