A decade after Edward Snowden leaked classified documents to change U.S. policy, the Discord leaks show how top-secret military intelligence can spread in internet backyards where users think “secrets are for losers” and just want to make friends
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Their philosophy, naive as it sounds, is that “secrecy is for losers,” said Alexis Wichowski, an information scientist who teaches at Columbia University and was formerly the deputy chief technology officer for New York City. But inside the government and among academics and industry executives who specialize in cyberlaw and cybersecurity, many people who think about the next threat also have been talking about the likelihood that someone like the alleged Discord leaker would come along. They believe
protect the identities of U.S. operatives mentioned in some of the documents he exposed. Winner — the 25-year-old National Security Agency contractor who stole a top-secret report about a Russian cyberattack on U.S.
Discord has 19 million chatrooms, known as servers, and about 150 million monthly users. It is at once a secluded garden brimming with private clubhouses and a densely populated universe of people who win each other’s trust — even as they remain anonymous — in part by expressing rebellion, antipathy to authority or socially unacceptable ideas.
, the director of polling at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics and the author of “Fight: How Gen Z Is Channeling Their Fear and Passion to Save America.”such forums is remarkably open. Digital natives are generally unconcerned about
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