{"id":12771,"date":"2023-05-21T15:44:41","date_gmt":"2023-05-21T15:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12771"},"modified":"2023-05-23T15:48:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T15:48:19","slug":"classified-discord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2023\/05\/21\/classified-discord\/","title":{"rendered":"Classified Discord"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-hottest-online-game-hunting-for-classified-documents-98a2791\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Global Scavenger Hunt for Classified Documents Pits Gamers vs. U.S.<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>The government secrets leaked on Discord have become fodder for users seeking fun and attention<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/news\/author\/jessica-donati\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jessica Donati<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-3-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12773\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-3-980x979.png 980w, https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-3-480x480.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Videogame enthusiasts are scouring popular social-media platforms in the hope of finding\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/document-leaks-indicate-extent-of-u-s-electronic-snooping-63b10387?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">classified U.S. military documents<\/a>, turning the recent national-security crisis over leaked secrets into a global scavenger hunt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The competition pits online users eager to see secrets against the U.S. government, which wants to keep those secrets off the internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At issue are a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/denied-a-gun-license-over-school-threat-accused-leaker-jack-teixeira-later-got-top-secret-clearance-1b0cd54?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cache of sensitive military documents<\/a>\u00a0that the Justice Department alleges Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, posted on Discord, a platform that allows gamers to gather and communicate online. The documents first began showing up last year on a Discord group\u2014known as a server\u2014and remained unnoticed for months until some of them were reposted to other larger servers and platforms, eventually finding their way to the media, garnering\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/new-details-on-intelligence-leak-show-it-circulated-for-weeks-before-raising-alarm-7730a395?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">public and U.S. government attention<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-hottest-online-game-hunting-for-classified-documents-98a2791\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at WSJ<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Wall Street Journal A Global Scavenger Hunt for Classified Documents Pits Gamers vs. U.S. The government secrets leaked on Discord have become fodder for users seeking fun and attention By\u00a0Jessica Donati Videogame enthusiasts are scouring popular social-media platforms in the hope of finding\u00a0classified U.S. military documents, turning the recent national-security crisis over leaked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}