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[–] gianni@lemmy.ca 65 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It is absurd to refer to this person as “Discord admin”.

It’s like saying “email-address owner gets 15 years for…”.

[–] Alice@beehaw.org 37 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I guess it's because his Discord server was where he leaked them? I feel like someone who doesn't use Discord could read this headline and assume he worked for the company, though.

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 14 points 1 day ago

I mean, I use Discord pretty much every day, and that's what I assumed.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 17 points 2 days ago

Especially when sites like Reddit/StackExchange use admin to mean employee and moderator to mean volunteer community leader.

[–] GammaGames@beehaw.org 4 points 2 days ago

Yeah it’s pretty misleading

[–] Melody@lemmy.one 9 points 1 day ago

Honestly I question the sanity of allowing a child to have an actual clearanced job and not brag about it to his friends. Mentally you're pretty much a kid until you're about 25 or so if you're AMAB.

I'm concerned that higher clearances aren't checking people for signs of stupid viewpoints before they're cleared.

[–] Corigan@lemm.ee 36 points 2 days ago (2 children)

And trump got..... Yeah that's right was never charged..

Our government is so toothless and corrupt

[–] Commiunism@beehaw.org 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Trump got 4 years of presidency in the US, which is definitely the more extreme punishment. It's something I would never wish upon my worst enemy

[–] Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 day ago

If I were a narcissist like Trump then I would love to be the President: I could set up all my family and friends with 7 figure jobs, I'd buy a hotel and then force the SS to rent out the entire building at 10x the normal rates, I could spend most of my time golfing, I could chat with my buddy Putin on the phone every day, etc.

Are there shitty parts to the job? Sure, but is it better than being a powerless wage slave to a soulless corporation? Absolutely yes.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 10 points 2 days ago

It’s like you’re going straight from the later period corrupt Roman Republic to one of the ineffectual incest emperors.

Situation - You run a discord server for alt right and weirdly obsessed about the military dudes. You have a secret clearance. Do you -

[ ] Share secret intel with people who have no need to see or know about it

[ ] Do nothing

Note: There are no political or military reasons to share this info, only ego boosting yourself. 30 seconds on the clock.

[–] lnxtx@feddit.nl 27 points 2 days ago

Amateur. Better store classified physical copies in a bathroom.

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 2 days ago

Although Teixeira asked Discord members not to share the documents, an investigative journalism group, Bellingcat, found that Teixeira's friends spread the documents widely, first to other Discord servers, then to Telegram, 4Chan, and Twitter (now called X).

What’s the saying? Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead?

[–] GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'm a "discord admin" too! Nuts!