Technology @lemmy.world Todd Bonzalez @lemm.ee 6 days ago

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

arstechnica.com 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.

Technology @beehaw.org sabreW4K3 @lazysoci.al 6 days ago

Discord admin gets 15 years for “one of the most significant leaks” in US history - Ars Technica

arstechnica.com /tech-policy/2024/11/discord-admin-gets-15-years-for-one-of-the-most-significant-leaks-in-us-history/

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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.
- 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.
- What does being admin has to do with it?
  
  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.
  
  first of all, admin of some random discord server is something else than discord admin, but that wouldn't give such nice tabloid headline...
I thought Stealing Documents was fine?
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.
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.
I love how his last name is pronounced "to share a" and he did, in abundance
PORTUGALCARALHO
- "To share a" 🤣
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.
- 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?
- 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").
  
  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.
  
  Which is why that data should not be collected.
- The production details for nuclear weapons are on a government document.
  
  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?
  
  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 ~~dick~~ boom".
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