From sharing memes and documents in a private gamers' chat, to being arrested by FBI agents for espionage at the age of 21; the story of Jack Teixeira is a parable for us all on how nothing online stays secret forever.
Teixeira seems to have assumed the documents would stay where he posted them - the group was a"tightknit family", according to one member interviewed by the Washington Post.Jack Teixeira was arrested by armed FBI agents near his home in Massachusetts
You don't need powerful algorithms and population scale audiences to go viral, though: it's how things used to work before the social media giants. If something is compelling enough, it will get shared. The leaks obviously raise huge questions for US intelligence. It is hard to patrol a platform like Discord. Unlike Twitter or Facebook, the site relies on users to moderate their own servers - as a result, the content is often wildly offensive . Members have to be invited.But security agencies have long been aware of gaming forums' potential for espionage.
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