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Discord: What is it and how are service members and veterans using it?

13 points by LinuxBender 4y ago

scotty79 4y ago
It is all so funny. > arrest of a suspect in connection with the leak of Pentagon intelligence to an online gaming community known as “Discord.” ... leak of Pentagon intelligence through interconnected technology of people talking on device and sevice know as "telephone". That's you, that's how you sound. "Discord" is the problem, not that they gave high security clearance to underpaid twentysomething with zero scrutiny because it's easier to be dumb and trust nothing bad happens than do a proper threat estimate and conform to recommendations even if it costs a bit more. With all the decades of history of military officials leaking secrets to impress random girls.
- robcohen 4y ago
  I mean, I'm not sure what screening could have prevented this. The Office of Personnel Management screens all military clearances. You basically write your history down, put down people who knew you at various times, and they interview those people and ask if you're a trustworthy person. What magical screening process would you like them to do?
  - jnwatson 4y ago
    The worst part is they could design a system with 99.9999% false negative rate and still have a few leaks a year. That we don’t have more leaks is really a good question.
  - scotty79 4y ago
    We live in surveillance state where random citizen can have their online life fully monitored. And you are asking what could be done? Why don't you fully monitor by default private lives of individuals that have that kind of clearance? With great power there should come great scrutiny. Trusted person is defined as someone who can violate the trust. Less intrusive solution would be just monitor all the data everybody accesses and spot the unusual data access patterns. Corporations already do that. Army not doing it is a mockery.
- theknocker 4y ago
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nateb2022 4y ago
Discord is very similar to Slack. It's not just for gaming, but for almost any kind of community. Any Reddit sub would and could function similarly on Discord.

13 points by LinuxBender 4y ago

It is all so funny. > arrest of a suspect in connection with the leak of Pentagon intelligence to an online gaming community known as “Discord.” ... leak of Pentagon intelligence through interconnected technology of people talking on device and sevice know as "telephone". That's you, that's how you sound. "Discord" is the problem, not that they gave high security clearance to underpaid twentysomething with zero scrutiny because it's easier to be dumb and trust nothing bad happens than do a proper threat estimate and conform to recommendations even if it costs a bit more. With all the decades of history of military officials leaking secrets to impress random girls.

robcohen 4y ago
I mean, I'm not sure what screening could have prevented this. The Office of Personnel Management screens all military clearances. You basically write your history down, put down people who knew you at various times, and they interview those people and ask if you're a trustworthy person. What magical screening process would you like them to do?
- jnwatson 4y ago
  The worst part is they could design a system with 99.9999% false negative rate and still have a few leaks a year. That we don’t have more leaks is really a good question.
- scotty79 4y ago
  We live in surveillance state where random citizen can have their online life fully monitored. And you are asking what could be done? Why don't you fully monitor by default private lives of individuals that have that kind of clearance? With great power there should come great scrutiny. Trusted person is defined as someone who can violate the trust. Less intrusive solution would be just monitor all the data everybody accesses and spot the unusual data access patterns. Corporations already do that. Army not doing it is a mockery.
theknocker 4y ago
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nateb2022 4y ago

Discord is very similar to Slack. It's not just for gaming, but for almost any kind of community. Any Reddit sub would and could function similarly on Discord.