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Re:Pentagon leaks linked to young gun enthusiast who worked ... by raphlinus on Thursday April 13, 2023 @11:56AM (#35557417)
Some more links. Bellingcat broke the Discord server story 5 days ago[1]. The Washington Post has a stunning story, including barely obscured video (unaltered voice) from a teenager who was active in the group and considers himself a good friend of the leaker[2]. The Guardian story cites and quotes extensively from the WP story, so that should be considered the original source, but does add more context. Emptywheel (who has been pretty consistently excellent when it comes to leaks and the like) has more analysis[3].

[1]: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2023/04/09/from-discord-to-4...

[2]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/04/12/discord...

[3]: https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/04/13/bear-versus-pig-on-the...

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Re:Pentagon leaks linked to young gun enthusiast who worked ... by r721 on Thursday April 13, 2023 @12:29PM (#35558017)
>The leader of a small online gaming chat group where a trove of classified U.S. intelligence documents leaked over the last few months is a 21-year-old member of the intelligence wing of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, according to interviews and documents reviewed by The New York Times.

>The national guardsman, whose name is Jack Teixeira, oversaw a private online group named Thug Shaker Central, where about 20 to 30 people, mostly young men and teenagers, came together over a shared love of guns, racist online memes and video games.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/13/world/documents-leak-leak...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35557583

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Re:Pentagon leaks linked to young gun enthusiast who worked ... by red-iron-pine on Thursday April 13, 2023 @12:54PM (#35558420)
> >The national guardsman, whose name is Jack Teixeira, oversaw a private online group named Thug Shaker Central, where about 20 to 30 people, mostly young men and teenagers, came together over a shared love of guns, racist online memes and video games.

4chan strikes again

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Re:Pentagon leaks linked to young gun enthusiast who worked ... by soundsabout on Thursday April 13, 2023 @02:17PM (#35559751)
sounds about right.
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Re:Pentagon leaks linked to young gun enthusiast who worked ... by colpabar on Thursday April 13, 2023 @03:07PM (#35560524)
This is completely unrelated but I will never understand why people make throwaways for comments like this - I make all my own dumb snarky comments on this account and it's never anything more than like -5 points. Who cares?
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Re:Pentagon leaks linked to young gun enthusiast who worked ... by AnimalMuppet on Thursday April 13, 2023 @06:35PM (#35563082)
Do it very often and dang starts reprimanding you. Do it too often and he rate-limits you. Do it too often after that, and he may ban you. So that's one reason.

Also, some people have their real contact info associated with their main account, and don't want that bit of snark associated with them in real life. Personally, I think that lacks integrity (literally, in the sense of their being "only one of you").

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Re:Pentagon leaks linked to young gun enthusiast who worked ... by Overtonwindow on Thursday April 13, 2023 @12:22PM (#35557901)
Washington post article:

https://archive.is/8eHnp

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