Many people on this website work with governments. National security topics intersect with technology often: Snowden, Reality Winner, the OPM hack, SolarWinds,

Many people on this website work with governments. National security topics intersect with technology often: Snowden, Reality Winner, the OPM hack, SolarWinds, really anything involving the NSA. There's hardly a day we don't read about some state-backed threat actor. Does it not seem reasonable, then, that a violation of fundamental classification policy catches interest? The impact of the leak shouldn't be measured in the material revelations that might be in those documents, especially should they be so underwhelming as many seem to think. Rather, the impact is that a person of rank chose to execute such a violation for such an overwhelmingly trivial reason. Imagine, if you can, the impact that act might have on morale within that military, and on the capacity for the social pressures within that organization to maintain adherence in the future.